Sentences with phrase «space studies data»

NASA graph adapted from Goddard Institute for Space Studies data.

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Today, so - called Amazonians occupy more office space in Seattle than the next 40 largest employers in the city combined, according to a study by real - estate data firm CoStar for the Seattle Times last year.
Oceanic data is valuable, but for decades the only way to study the world's hostile waters was to deploy a stationary buoy, launch a satellite into space, or send a government research vessel that runs hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to operate — on top of its initial price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars.
But Amgen's rivals in the space, Sanofi and Regeneron (which have their own PCSK9 blocking medicine called Praluent), announced that an independent data monitoring committee hasn't seen enough significant evidence in a huge, 18,000 - patient cardiovascular outcomes trial to stop the study early.
Once they land, scientists will begin analyzing data from the men to study changes that occurred in their bodies over an extended stay in space.
Using the Great Barrier Reef as their study case, they estimated the evolution of the region over the last 14,000 years and showed that (1) high sediment loads from catchments erosion prevented coral growth during the early phase of sea level rise and favoured deep offshore sediment deposition; (2) how the fine balance between climate, sea level, and margin physiography enabled coral reefs to thrive under limited shelf sedimentation rates at 6,000 years before present; and, (3) how over the last 3,000 years, the decrease of accommodation space led to the lateral extension of coral reefs consistent with available observational data.
Dr. Willis studies sea level rise driven by human - caused global warming, using data measurements taken from space.
«We may have to wait 20 or 30 years before the data set in the 21st century is good enough to pin down sensitivity,» says climate modeler Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
«These data are a fundamental reference for the radiation hazards in near Earth «geospace» out to Mars and other regions of our sun's vast heliosphere,» says CRaTER principal investigator Nathan Schwadron of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS).
For the study, researchers tracked landscape changes around the Amazon's 50 largest active mines, analyzing 10 years of deforestation data from Brazil's Space Agency (INPE).
«The data are really good to know,» says microbiologist Ralf Möller of the German Aerospace Center in Cologne, who ran one of the studies of SAFR - 032 exposed to space outside of the ISS.
The GPS data, which dates from December 2000, fill a hole in studies of space weather, the complex interplay of Earth's magnetic field with bombarding radiation from cosmic rays and the sun.
That's what researchers from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore expected to find when they combined data on 458 GRBs discovered by satellites since 2007, a painstaking chore that no one had undertaken before, says Melissa Nysewander, a former STScI astronomer and a co-author of the study submitted for publication to The Astrophysical Journal.
«Alice did its job perfectly, taking over 70,000 spectra in two years, providing a gold mine of data for comet scientists to study for years to come,» says Dr. Alan Stern, Alice principal investigator and an associate vice president of SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division.
A team of British and American astronomers used data from several telescopes on the ground and in space — among them the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope — to study the atmosphere of the hot, bloated, Saturn - mass exoplanet WASP - 39b, about 700 light - years from Espace — among them the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope — to study the atmosphere of the hot, bloated, Saturn - mass exoplanet WASP - 39b, about 700 light - years from ESpace Telescope — to study the atmosphere of the hot, bloated, Saturn - mass exoplanet WASP - 39b, about 700 light - years from Earth.
In the new study, co-author Katrina Virts, an atmospheric scientist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was analyzing data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, a network of sensors that locates lightning strokes all over the globe, when she noticed a nearly straight line of lightning strokes across the Indian Ocean.
«The Hubble data open a whole new window on the Fermi Bubbles,» said study co-author Andrew Fox of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
The record was also confirmed by data from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York says that what's needed are models with even finer detail, and data on all different kinds of clouds.
The team used radar data from satellites, such as the European Space Agency's now - defunct Envisat, to study ground motions in the Taupo Volcanic Zone.
In the new work, Surabi Menon of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and colleagues used aerosol data collected from 46 ground stations in China to assess four different climate modeling scenarios.
By studying such a large data set — over 200,000 galaxies in 21 different wavelengths, or colors of light, from ultraviolet to infrared — astronomers compared the energy emissions from galaxies across a wide swath of space and time to read the history of the universe.
From this survey data, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as large ground - based observatories will be able to further characterize the targets, making it possible for the first time to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits, and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.
Global warming has neither stopped nor slowed in the past decade, according to a draft analysis of temperature data by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
When a study's data are restricted to a physical lab space, old - fashioned locks and geography limits who can attempt to break in.
Three studies published earlier this year, using six or more years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, have broadened the mission's dark matter hunt using some novel approaches.
Based on a 2016 study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists speculated that lava would flow freely in lakes on the starlit side and become hardened on the face of perpetual darkness.
Their study uses data from the Cosmic Evolution Survey, or COSMOS, the largest galaxy survey ever conducted with NASA's orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
Global warming has neither stopped nor slowed in the past decade, according to a draft analysis of temperature data by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
The research, made possible by the availability of high - resolution data in space and time on veterinarian movements in the study area, shed light on the actual significance of operator movements in disease spread, a still poorly understood topic due to the highly diverse and complex nature of such movements and to privacy issues in data collection.
Scientists at Southwest Research Institute are studying New Horizons data to discover what's pumping up the nitrogen in Pluto's atmosphere, even as it escapes into interplanetary space.
Archival data from NASA's Chandra, Swift and Spitzer space telescopes as well as Japan's Suzaku satellite, were also used for further studies.
Now a team has used data from the Integral satellite, run by the European Space Agency (ESA), to study an entirely different effect: the polarisation of light of different energies from a GRB.
The mystery was finally solved by studying data collected simultaneously by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Cluster and NASA's IMAGE satellites on 15 September 2005.
Rather than studying bright stars, the two students used Hubble Space Telescope data from 274 dwarf stars, which were serendipitously observed by the orbiting observatory while it was looking for the most distant galaxies in the early Universe.
The purpose of this study is to collect data on the viability of edible plants grown in microgravity, supporting further human space exploration by contributing to the future goal of maintaining an available supply of fresh produce for crew members.
For the moment, data on brown dwarfs can be used as a stand - in for contemplating extrasolar worlds we hope to study with future instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope.
The data came from a study called Caudwell Xtreme Everest, which took place in 2007 and was coordinated by the UCL Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme environment medicine (CASE Medicine).
The Nature study used data from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes to suggest that clouds or haze could be hiding undetected water in hot Jupiters.
Data generated early in NASA's Integrated Immune study indicated that the distribution of immune cells in the blood of crew members aboard the space station is relatively unchanged during flight.
In the new study, scientists scrutinized the latest data from the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope.
Scientists are involved in the evaluation of global - scale climate models, regional studies of the coupled atmosphere / ocean / ice systems, regional severe weather detection and prediction, measuring the local and global impact of the aerosols and pollutants, detecting lightning from space and the general development of remotely - sensed data bases.
But February's numbers prompted Gavin Schmidt, who heads NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, which keeps the agency's temperature data, to comment on the extraordinary record on Twitter.
A new study based on data gathered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests that the anomalous dips in brightness that have been observed around the star KIC 8462852 are caused by the fragmentation of similar cometary fragments.
We highlight the importance of such comparative studies for data interpretations in the context of future space missions (e.g. ESA JUICE; ESA / JAXA BEPI COLOMBO).
The 12 - month running average global temperature broke the record three times in 2010, according to NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) data.
For this new study, Deutsch worked with Gregory Neumann from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to take a deep dive into the data returned from MESSENGER.
The data come from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York (GISS), which monitors global surface temperatures.
Such data will allow astronomers to further study the huge star's surroundings and how it is shedding material into space.
And a re-examination of the original study suggested that the planet might be an artifact of the data processing, according to a report by the deep - space exploration site Centauri Dreams.
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