Sentences with phrase «space studies made»

In 1995, Judith L. Lean of the Naval Research Laboratory and David Rind of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies made correlations between solar irradiance and the temperature curve since 1610.

Not exact matches

The study ranked urban centers — excluding the larger metro areas — using three factors: local business environment (length of the average workweek, revenue growth, industry variety), access to resources (financing and the amount of venture capital investment made per capita), and costs (office space affordability, labor costs, corporate taxes, and cost of living).

We've long studied these coworking spaces for making things and our 2009 study on the maker movement is one of our favorite research projects.

Making space by reducing your church activities could be better for your spiritual health in the long run, better than doing that Monday night Bible study everyone seems to be a part of.

If we did make the global economy and the economy of nature together key concerns for the conceptual space of theological studies, what would need to happen beyond Moltmann's nomination of a new dialogue partner?

Because even though I write here in this space, daily baring my soul to a few thousand souls, the thought of getting on stage, in front of 200 people I see weekly, sometimes daily, at dance lessons and the park, at Bible study and the grocery store, to talk, oh, it made my knees knock.

Multiple studies have shown that corrugated makes the most efficient use of space in truckloads, which is an important determinant of shipping costs.

She also instinctively bends her legs completing the protective space around the baby, making it impossible for another person to roll onto the baby without first coming into contact with her legs.15, 16 A breastfeeding mother who co-sleeps with her baby (and has not consumed alcohol, illegal or sleep - inducing drugs or extreme fatigue) also tends to be highly responsive to her baby's needs.17, 18 Studies show more frequent arousals in both mothers and babies when they co-sleep, and some researchers have suggested that this may be protective against sudden unexpected infant deaths.19 — 21 Babies are checked by their mother and breastfeed more frequently when co-sleeping than when room - sharing.22, 23

Make sure your child's study space is free of the clutter that can distract from schoolwork.

«Titan's atmosphere is made up mainly of nitrogen and methane, with 50 % higher pressure at its surface than on Earth,» said Andrew Coates (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory), who led the study.

«This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of everything and don't emit light, such as dark energy, dark matter, and dark radiation,» said study leader and Nobel Laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and The Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, Maryland.

The test is made up of 38 multiple choice assessment items that were originally developed by Project 2061 as part of a study funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

This makes pulsars exceptional cosmic laboratories to study the fundamental nature of space, time, and gravity.

There is no doubt that the 2015 study, led by Jay Zwally, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, flew in the face of previous research and even assertions made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

«You don't necessarily have to have a «dirtier» snowpack to make it dark,» said lead author Marco Tedesco, a research professor at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and adjunct scientist at NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies.

Scientists, dealers, collectors and nomadic tribesmen have formed a surprising alliance that's advancing the study of space rocks — and making, for some, a tidy profit.

The much - anticipated James Webb Space Telescope — often referred to as Hubble's successor — for example, will likely only study worlds that hug their host stars, making observations of planets with wider orbits like Mars or even Earth out of the question.

Perhaps they could turn the space into a classroom, study whether lighting can reduce falls among older people or probe whether certain office conditions make it easier for people with traumatic brain injuries to return to work.

The shuttle mission this weekend will also deploy the European Space Agency's Eureca satellite, the world's first reusable satellite for studying the effects of microgravity (see «Making the most of weightlessness», New Scientist, 11 July).

Then in 2011, Goddard engineer Donald Dichmann, who at the time worked for Applied Defense Solutions in Columbia, Md., and his co-authors began work on a paper reviewing the trade studies NASA made when it decided to move its Interstellar Boundary Explorer from its original orbit to a more stable position at another lunar - resonant orbit — P / 3 — where it's mapping the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.

The skull went first to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's PaleoLab in Pittsburgh, then made a brief trip to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuspace shuttle.

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.

It's difficult to study these dynamics on Earth because gravity gets in the way, making the space station an ideal research platform for these important industrial processes.

A second study, led by Hailan Wang of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, used different model simulations and came to a similar conclusion: While a warming sea surface did make it more likely that a high - pressure ridge could form, the signal was not strong enough to explain its extreme nature.

And that can make meteorites recovered on the ground as valuable as those studied in space.

Astronomer Andrew Fox of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and his colleagues made the discovery while studying a stream of gas shed by two nearby galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which orbit the Milky Way.

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.

Budgetmakers in the U.S. Senate want the Department of Energy (DOE) to study the possibility of making Earth reflect more sunlight into space to fight global warming.

James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies argues that China and India will make this decision out of pure self - interest, since rising sea levels could place large portions of their coastal populations at risk.

Cassini, a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency, has been studying the Saturn system since 2004, and its grand mission will come to a close in 2017, after the spacecraft makes a series of dives through the space between the planet and its rSpace Agency and the Italian Space Agency, has been studying the Saturn system since 2004, and its grand mission will come to a close in 2017, after the spacecraft makes a series of dives through the space between the planet and its rSpace Agency, has been studying the Saturn system since 2004, and its grand mission will come to a close in 2017, after the spacecraft makes a series of dives through the space between the planet and its rspace between the planet and its rings.

«The abundance of organics and their role in getting life started may make a big, big difference between a giant universe with a lot of life, and one with very little,» says Scott Sandford of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, who studies organic molecules from space.

But a handful of real - life archaeologists are already making a bid to study culture in space — of the human, not alien, variety.

Ocean surface height measurements are routinely made from space by radar altimeters, but this new study is the first that uses the GPS reflections.

«The fact that such small changes to the analysis make the difference between a hiatus or not merely underlines how fragile a concept it was in the first place,» Gavin Schmidt, the head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said.

This discovery makes GJ 1132b one of the highest - priority targets for further study by the current top facilities, such as the Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope, as well as the James Webb Space Telescope which is slated for launch in 2018.

«The hybrid engine concept goes back almost a half century, and no one could make it work efficiently,» says David Whalen, chair of the space studies department at the University of North Dakota (U.N.D.).

«What makes this very exciting is that this type of interaction between the sun and a planet rarely happens for Earth but it's believed to be a frequent occurrence for other Earth - like extrasolar planets,» said Noé Lugaz, a research associate professor at UNH's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS), and lead author of the sStudy of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS), and lead author of the studystudy.

But some space scientists have long made use of arXiv, and a subset of the earth scientists who published in the journals of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) have already become accustomed to such openness, as EGU has posted studies online prior to review for more than 15 years, says Ulrich Pöschl, an atmospheric chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, who helped found the journals.

«We can make these features in a computer, but we couldn't make them happen in a lab,» said Aurnou, a UCLA professor of earth, planetary and space sciences, who has spent the past decade studying computer models of swirling winds.

With UCSC graduate student Jonathan Langton, he is studying the surface flows on strongly irradiated extrasolar planets, and is comparing the results of these simulations to observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope.

He was briefly at NASA Institute for Space Studies where he initiated a balloon program to make far infrared sky surveys.

A 2008 study presented evidence for an intermediate - mass black hole at the center of Omega Centauri, based on observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and Gemini Observatory on Cerro Pachon in Chile.

Pulham pointed out that his organization recently published a study (Pioneering: Sustaining U.S. Leadership in Space) that made similar recommendations to what is in SLPA.

Researchers looked at 130 single - star systems that the Spitzer Space Telescope had determined to have debris disks around them and compared them to 277 stellar systems that appeared not to have debris disks, making this the largest study to observe stars with debris disks.

Researchers who make and study plasmonic particles generally want to know and control their reactivity, so it is crucial to be able to study many individual particles simultaneously with the best resolution of time, space and energy possible.

Hubble Space Telescope observing time was devoted to making this panorama because the nebula is a vast laboratory for studying the processes which gave birth to our own Sun and solar system 4.5 billion years ago.

While seedlings from Plant Gravity Perception will not wind up on astronauts» plates, their studied growth furthers our knowledge of perceptual thresholds and makes selecting appropriate garden greens likely to thrive in space easier for future long duration spaceflight, including exploration missions beyond low - Earth orbit.

«We at the RadioAstron mission are truly happy that the unique combination of the Russian - made space radio telescope and the huge international ground array of the largest radio telescopes has allowed to study this young relativistic jet in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole», comments the RadioAstron Project Scientist, Professor Yuri Kovalev from the Lebedev Institute in Moscow.

The answer actually applies to many subjects studied in physics and deep - space astronomy — when you can't observe something directly, or you can't explain something you are seeing, you make educated guesses based on what you do see: the effect on other objects.

That was all necessary because Earth's surface is filled with noise that makes it tough to spot the waves» signals — it would be a lot easier to study gravitational waves from the relative quiet of space.