Sentences with phrase «planet as a laboratory»

How is it possible to use the Planet as a laboratory and make experiments on the future of the climate?

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«We can use Mars, a planet that we know a lot about, as a laboratory for studying rocky planets outside our solar system, which we don't know much about yet.»

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

The spacecraft's view is now three times as sharp as in its previous mapping orbit, revealing exciting new details of this intriguing dwarf planet,» said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

Suzanne Smrekar of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the first author of the Science paper, says that as we begin to find Earth - like planets in other solar systems, some of which may turn out to be similar to Venus, it's becoming urgent to understand why the planet took such a different path from the Earth in its evolution.

For example, they could make it possible to recreate on a laboratory scale states of matter found in the interior of the Sun or in the inner recesses of giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn.

Volcanoes are emerging as natural laboratories to mimic «geo - engineering», the idea that governments could deliberately add a veil of sulphur dioxide high above the planet as an artificial sunshade to curb man - made global warming.

Researchers on both sides of the issue are set to gather in August at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., for what's being called «The Great Planet Debate: Science as Process.»

Kepler project scientist Nick Gautier of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory presented new data at the meeting on three of the larger planets in the Kepler - 20 system, now officially known as Kepler - 20b, -20 c and -20 d. From the star's wobbles, observed with ground - based telescopes, Gautier and his colleagues were able to deduce the masses of Kepler - 20b and -20 c: 8.7 and 16.1 Earth masses, respectively.

A Senior Scientist at NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C., Dr. Meyer oversees the Mars program's science operations and planning and also serves as Program Scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory / Curiosity mission currently operating on the surface of the Red Planet.

Given at least nine meters (roughly 30 feet) of water on the planet, photosynthetic microbes (including mats of algae, cyanobacteria, and other photosynthetic bacteria) and plant - like protoctists (such as floating seaweed or kelp forests attached to the seafloor) could be protected from «planet - scalding» ultraviolet flares produced by young red dwarf stars, according to Victoria Meadows of Caltech, principal investigator at the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory.

The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, From Stardust to Living Planet, written by the Geophysical Laboratory's Bob Hazen, has been chosen from books released in 2012 as one of the five titles on the short list for the current Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, one of the three book awards given by Phi Beta Kappa annually.

La Cañada Flintridge's connection to the heavens made for a sensational story in 2012, as Jet Propulsion Laboratory safely landed the NASA rover Curiosity on the Red Planet.

«We are using Io as a volcanic laboratory, where we can look back into the past of the terrestrial planets to get a better understanding of how these large eruptions took place, and how fast and how long they lasted,» Davies said.

She then worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Mars Program Office where she served as the Mars Sample Return Science System Engineer and worked on formulation of sample science and astrobiology investigations for future robotic missions, as well as long - term planning for potential human missions to the red planet.

«Kepler's original mission observed a small patch of sky as it was designed to conduct a demographic survey of the different types of planets,» said Ian Crossfield, a Sagan Fellow at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, who led the research effort.

«We are using Io as a volcanic laboratory, where we can look back into the past of the terrestrial planets to get a better understanding of how these large eruptions took place, and how fast and how long they lasted,» states Davies.

The program, called «swoope,» for Students Watching Over Our Planet Earth, is to begin this summer as a pilot in New Mexico, laboratory officials said.

Its hard to model injecting particles, or do it in a laboratory, so it would be using the planet as the final experiment.

As we know from laboratory experiments, mathematical calculations, and observations of Venus and other planets in the Solar System, greenhouse gases change things in two ways: they trap heat from the sun in the lower atmosphere, thus making the surface of the planet warmer; and they keep heat from rising, thus making the upper atmosphere colder.

A big increase in research would be part of what I have characterized as «the energy quest» — from the wall outlet to the laboratory to the classroom to the boardroom — that many experts say would be needed to have a planet - wide overhaul of a fossil - based energy system that has taken two centuries to build.

The Cyberjustice Laboratory is a rallying organization that shares and relays the findings and the advancement occurring across the planet (and from within the Laboratory as well).