Sentences with phrase «nasa scientists»

Yet they also note that Nasa scientists doing similar work are much more open.

The Ferrigno rift lies close to the Pine Island Glacier where Nasa scientists found a giant crack last year; but the newly discovered feature is not thought to be influencing the «Pig», as it is known.

Even photographs of deep space taken by the Hubble telescope are given colour by Nasa scientists in ways that echo Turner; somehow, he shapes how we see nebulae and supernovae.

Nasa scientists say the world has lost an expanse of ice larger than Mexico since 1981

«Deploying the solar panels is technically more challenging than the launch of a shuttle one more time,» said Nasa scientist Stephen Maran.

The methane plume signatures, and the robot's ability to detect them, are of specific interest for NASAs scientists who are involved in the project.

The Climate and Health Council supports Nasa scientist James Hansen as he joins the campaign to uncover secret funders bankrolling climate sceptic Nigel Lawson and his lobbying think - tank (Climate experts back unveiling of Lawson thinktank donor, 23 January).

Just last week a Nasa scientist, Jim Hansen, whom Bush had tried to silence in the past warned that Obama has just four years to save the world.

At the time the Nasa scientist James Hansen put up a $ 100 wager that at least one of the first three years of the 1990s would surpass the 1988 record.

Not exact matches

nasa and those scientists see things that we will never be allowed to see, they discover things we would never be allowed to know.

In space, metal is not subject to the corrosion that occurs on Earth, says Luz Marina Calle, the lead corrosion scientist at nasa.

Among them was Bill Borucki, a space scientist who persuaded nasa to launch a telescope that looks for a 0.01 percent dip in brightness from faraway stars when planets pass in front of them.

This global biological recordbased on daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant productivity and the health of the oceans food web.

Dr. Ayanna Howard, MiSciNet's featured scientist, also credits her summer research experience at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for introducing her to her present specialty, artificial intelligence.

Some climate scientists, including James E. Hansen, former head of the nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, say we must also consider slower feedbacks such as changes in the continental ice sheets.

«We are going to have the ability to observe the most distant objects, among the earliest in the universe, and thus probe the secrets of creation,» said Nasa's chief scientist, Leonard Fisk.

said Chris McKay, planetary scientist of the Nasa Ames research centre.

The British OCO scientist, Dr Paul Palmer from Edinburgh University, commented: «This is another big blow for the Nasa Earth science programme, particularly because the reason for the failure appears to be the same as that which affected the OCO launch.

The group evaluated how chemical imbalance in Europa could be initiated through the emanation of water leading to chain reactions between water and chemical elements found in Europa's crust — however, a total lack of empirical data prevents scientists from unequivocally presuming any of these events (an «Europa Mission» may take place as late as 2030, stated Nasa, the US space agency).

«Volcanic islands are some of the simplest landforms to make,» said Jim Garvin, first author of the study and chief scientist of Nasa's Goddard space flight centre.

Last year Nasa's top climate scientist, James Hansen, reported that his bosses were trying to censor his lectures, papers and web postings.

Joey Comiso, senior research scientist at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center, said this year's ice retreat was caused by previous warm years reducing the amount of perennial ice — which is more resistant to melting.

If you walk back from it, you stop masking the effects of climate change and you unleash the accumulated effects rather abruptly,» Waleed Abdalati, a former Nasa chief scientist who was on the panel, said.

Though other prominent scientists, such as Nasa's James Hansen and more recently Texas Tech University's Katharine Hayhoe, have also been targetted by contrarian bloggers and thinktanks demanding their institutions turn over their email record, it's Mann who's been the favourite target.

LONDON, 14 March, 2016 — The drought that has blighted the eastern Mediterranean since 1998 could be the worst in nine centuries, according to new research led by scientists from the US space agency Nasa.

Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at Nasa's Goddard Institute who is also on the list of 17, said he had seen an increase in freedom of information act requests.

Some climate scientists, including James E. Hansen, former head of the nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, say we must also consider slower feedbacks such as changes in the continental ice sheets.

«The Nasa climate scientists who claimed 2014 set a new record for global warmth last night admitted they were only 38 % sure this was true.»

Nasa's top climate scientist Jim Hansen told a jury at the trial of 20 environmental activists that he had begun speaking out about climate change again in the past five years because of his grandchildren.

Nasa's Gavin Schmidt has previously argued that the danger of such a methane release is low, whereas scientists like Prof Tim Lenton from Exeter University who specialises in climate tipping points, says the process would takethousands if not tens of thousands of years, let alone a decade.

Ok — lets generalize then - one group is saying that there is a significant amount of damage being done to the biosphere through human activity to warrant concern - this group is made up of atmospheric scientists, biologists, physicists, oceanographers, Nasa climate scientists, National Science Academies, WMO etc

Some scientists, including Dr Gavin Schmidt, head of Nasa's climate division, have claimed that the recent highs were mainly the result of long - term global warming.

This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by a Nasa - affiliated scientist and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University that, while considered unlikely, they say could play out were humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future.

I hadn't realised Hansen was quite so political (there I was thinking he was merely a Nasa climate scientist) and seems to pop up everywhere.

The scientists at UEA and Nasa have only themselves to blame.

James Hansen, the director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies who first warned the world about the dangers of climate change in the 1980s, has joined other scientists in submitting statements to be considered by a judge at the Information Rights Tribunal on Friday... James Hansen told the Guardian: «Our children and grandchildren will judge those who have misled the public, allowing fossil fuel emissions to continue almost unfettered, as guilty of crimes against humanity and nature... If successful, the FOI request may, by exposing one link in a devious manipulation of public opinion, start a process that allows the public to be aware of what is happening, what is at stake, and where the public interest lies.»»