Sentences with phrase «paulette clancy»

Graduate student James Stevenson, astronomer Jonathan Lunine and chemical engineer Paulette Clancy, with a Cassini image of Titan in the foreground of Saturn, and an azotosome, the theorized cell membrane on Titan.

«We're not biologists, and we're not astronomers, but we had the right tools,» Paulette Clancy, a chemical molecular dynamics expert, who led the study, said, according to a statement released by Cornell University, adding: «Perhaps it helped, because we didn't come in with any preconceptions about what should be in a membrane and what shouldn't.

«If they can survive long enough to reach the sea, perhaps they can play a role in any chemical reactions that take place there, maybe even the ones within the shelter of the vinyl cyanide membrane that could lead to a metabolic process,» says Paulette Clancy at Cornell University in New York.

In 2015, Lunine and Cornell colleagues James Stevenson and Paulette Clancy proposed a way life might exist in methane.