Sentences with phrase «outer planets research»
The work is funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA's Outer Planets Research and Planetary Geology and Geophysics Programs.
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New research indicates that the load of Mars» Tharsis bulge caused the planet's outer layers to rotate.
Research like this is important because it focuses on questions we can definitively answer, like whether or not Europa is inhabitable,» said Curt Niebur, Outer Planets Program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
She is a Principal Investigator in NASA's «Origins of Solar Systems», «Planetary Geology and Geophysics», «Outer Planets Fundamental Research», and LASER programs and NSF's «Planetary Astronomy» program.
Although Kargel's research focused on the icy moons of the outer solar system, his interest was piqued when he saw what he thought was a network of sinuous channels meandering through the Argyre impact basin, a region in the southern highlands of the red planet.
«The composition and chemistry of ice giant atmospheres provides clues about their formation, evolution and current state,» explained a research paper referenced as part of NASA's Outer Planets Assessment Group Meeting in Laurel, Maryland.
This era produced the Voyagers to the outer planets, the Vikings to Mars (in partnership with NASA's Langley Research Center), the Galileo mission to the Jupiter system (in partnership with NASA's Ames Research Center), and Cassini - Huygens to the Saturn system (in partnership with the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency).