Sentences with phrase «about habitability»

Also about the habitability of earth for man and mammals as the wet - bulb temperature exceeds 26 C in larger areas, and the fossil fuel resources making this state possible in the long term.

But then it isn't really an Exige at all, more a sort of Exige / Evora mash - up that forgets all that nonsense about habitability and touchscreen satnav and instead concentrates on raw excitement, handling accuracy and astonishing performance.

Like manganese, another element that NASA's Curiosity rover discovered in surprising abundance on Mars, boron has a lot to say about the habitability of the Red Planet.

Since I care about the habitability of the surface, not temperature per se, I don't see the results as reassuring in the least.

As mentioned on the NASA website, Curiosity is currently exploring the lower slopes of Mount Sharp, a huge mountain in the middle of Gale crater, which can provide more clues about the habitability of this region a few billion years ago.

This finding, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, raises questions about the habitability of our solar system's nearest...

There have already been interesting discussions about the habitability of planets orbiting red dwarfs.

«There are a lot of unanswered questions about habitability,» said Lucianne Walkowicz, a Kepler science team member based at Princeton University, N.J., who studies flaring stars.

And while Curiosity's mission does not include life detection, the rover is expected to unearth clues about the habitability of the environments on the Red Planet, said John Grotzinger, MSL project scientist at JPL.

Hoehler: There are two ways to think about habitability.

Not exact matches

«Habitability is one of the biggest topics in astronomy, and these estimates demonstrate one way to leverage what we know about Mars and the Sun to help determine the factors that control whether planets in other systems might be suitable for life,» said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN's principal investigator at the University of Colorado Boulder.

This includes places like parts of the eastern Pacific Ocean where small animals like nematodes and specially adapted fish live on the fringes of habitability, subsisting in waters where oxygen concentrations can be only about 1 % of normal surface water levels.

Bean and Kempton, meanwhile, are interested in detailing what a statistical census of biologically significant gases such as oxygen, carbon dioxide and ozone could reveal about planetary habitability.

«Given the concerns about our own environment and climate change, finding an exoplanet that might experience the runaway greenhouse much sooner than we will made us reflect on the Earth's near - and long - term prospects for habitability,» Jenkins says.

Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have recently raised doubts about water on — and thus potential habitability of — frequently cited exoplanets that orbit red dwarfs, the most common stars in the Milky Way.

Whereas these discoveries have offered broad information about planets in the Milky Way — sizes, masses and orbital periods — they have told us far less about climate, weather and habitability.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will study Mars to learn more about the planet's transition from wet to dry, and what that means about its past and present habitability.

«We still have a lot to learn about the potential habitability of these planets, but it would perhaps indicate that there may be planets similar to Earth orbiting our nearest stellar neighbors.»

It doesn't imply anything about potential habitability.

«If we go to Enceladus, we essentially get a free sample,» said Nimmo, who presented a paper at the American Geophysical Union conference earlier this month about how the properties of ice impact the habitability of moons in the outer solar system.

Today's authors warn that such a mistake could lead us to false conclusions about planetary atmospheres, compositions, and habitability.

The National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory and the Planetary Habitability Laboratory of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo joins forces with Red Dots today to learn a bit more about the nearest red - dwarfs and its -LSB-...]

Not long ago, while making a presentation about possible destinations for an interstellar probe, I called Gl 581d the most likely candidate for habitability yet discovered among nearby stars.

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As for Viking's prime mission, how do you search for life on a planet when there are so many things that are unknown about the current and past conditions, and potential for habitability overall?

They expressed excitement about exoplanet research, emphasized the need for studying planets as «systems» and they strongly endorsed connecting research projects in different disciplines that address exoplanet habitability.

In addition, the panel notes, Orion is small and does not have much room for astronauts to move about or exercise even though the missions may last as long as three weeks: «This long duration, crew habitability risk remains to be assessed and evaluated in order to develop an objective mission risk estimate.»

Since its discovery, different studies have drawn different conclusions about Proxima b's potential habitability.

Independent studies are ongoing to learn more about the past habitability of Mars.

The local health department was involved and she had to meet their requirements as far as the habitability of her house; but although dogs would have been monitored / limited / licensed, etc.; there are no requirements about how many cats anyone can have in my area; a suburb of Cincinnati.

It will get many people thinking about our effect on the local environment and the world's habitability.

Thinking big about our destiny, think of this: the ultimate habitability catastrophe for Earth is when the Sun leaves the main sequence and turns into a Red Giant.

In general, terrestrial habitability has been about 50 % higher than today during most of the Phanerozoic, but it has been steadily decreasing since the last 100 million years.

Three - dimensional (3D) planetary general circulation models (GCMs) derived from the models that we use to project 21st Century changes in Earth's climate can now be used to address outstanding questions about how Earth became and remained habitable despite wide swings in solar radiation, atmospheric chemistry, and other climate forcings; whether these different eras of habitability manifest themselves in signals that might be detected from a great distance; whether and how planets such as Mars and Venus were habitable in the past; how common habitable exoplanets might be; and how we might best answer this question with future observations.

Our Solar System's history, especially Earth, Mars, and Venus, has driven early thinking about concepts such as the «habitable zone» that have traditionally been applied to evaluate the habitability of planets discovered orbiting other stars.

About Blog Marc Kaufman is an experienced journalist, having spent three decades at The Washington Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and is the author of two books on searching for life and planetary habitability.