Sentences with phrase «about planetary science»

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We will also apply for more observation time on the ALMA telescope to study the planet - forming discs in even higher resolution to get more detailed information about their chemical composition,» says Jes Jørgensen, associate professor in the research group Astrophysics and Planetary Science at the Niels Bohr Institute and Centre for Star and Planet Formation, University of Copenhagen.

That perspective helped solve mysteries about the planet and its moons that could not be tackled any other way, scientists said March 19 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

About 70 percent of the lunar plains come from either Orientale or one other similar basin, she reported March 22 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

Paul Voosen Staff Writer Writes about earth and planetary science.

At a joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Conference and the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences held last week in Nantes, France, the session on ExoMars began not with a review of the mission's science, but with a discussion about ways to ensure its suScience Conference and the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences held last week in Nantes, France, the session on ExoMars began not with a review of the mission's science, but with a discussion about ways to ensure its suscience, but with a discussion about ways to ensure its survival.

Bill Nye, the CEO of The Planetary Society (and all around awesome human being) muses cleverly about the cosmos, physics, our place in space, and science in general.

«What has always been intriguing about the moon is that we expect to find ice wherever the temperatures are cold enough for ice, but that's not quite what we see,» said Matt Siegler, a researcher with the Planetary Science Institute in Dallas, Texas, and a co-author on the study.

We extract science by carefully modeling all the ways in which the spacecraft and the instruments themselves could have caused the apparent brightness of a planetary system to change over time... We are pretty sure we can trust our models of Spitzer down to about a part in 10,000; we are in uncharted territory as far as detector behavior is concerned.»

«It continues to amaze us; every time we look carefully we continue to find that Planet Nine explains something about the solar system that had long been a mystery,» says Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science.

«For the first time, we have used a geophysical method to determine the internal structure of Enceladus, and the data suggest that indeed there is a large, possibly regional ocean about 50 kilometers below the surface of the south pole,» says David Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetarPlanetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetaryplanetary bodies.

«We didn't believe the measurements at first, and spent about a year just convincing ourselves that they were accurate,» said lead author Laurence Yeung, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Rice University.

With budgets capped at roughly $ 1 billion and a launch rate of about twice per decade, New Frontiers missions are arguably the best bets for breaking new ground in planetary science.

According to another Dawn co-investigator, Mark Sykes, the director of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, these sorts of unexpected, counterintuitive findings suggest there's much more to learn about the bright spots.

Science has progressed from wild speculation about Earth's planetary neighbors — including how they formed and whether they are inhabited — to a better understanding of our celestial neighborhood

Asked about the situation, Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters says only, «We're continuing to study our options for long - range support of communication for our rovers and landed assets on Mars.»

If NASA is serious about human exploration of Mars, then science measurements from a NeMO are essential, says Alfred McEwen, director of the Planetary Image Research Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson and principal investigator of MRO's HiRISE.

Also read about women's adventures in science in Space Rocks: The Story of Planetary Geologist Adriana Ocampo by Lorraine Jean Hopping, and Gorilla Mountain: The Story of Wildlife Biologist Amy Vedder by Rene Ebersole.

In the meantime, speculation about the U.S.'s future in space has reached its highest point in recent memory, as made clear here last week by the proceedings of the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC).

Within that, however, the agency's science budget is slated to grow by roughly half a billion dollars, with $ 360 million allocated to earth science and about $ 175 million for planetary science.

Daniel Schrag gets visitors all the time — graduate students in despair over their dissertations, fellow faculty members dropping by to chat about the Cretaceous sulfur cycle or some equally abstruse topic, or visiting scientists collaborating with him on one of the scores of scholarly papers he has churned out in a career that has earned him a professorship in Harvard's department of earth and planetary sciences and a MacArthur genius grant.

He talks about «entering a new era in planetary science» and «the thrill of exploring a whole new planet».

That would have raised lunar air pressure to about 1 per cent that of modern Earth, or 1.5 times as dense as the atmosphere on Mars today (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi.org/cdww).

«By comparing the measured craters to the number and spatial distribution of large impact basins on Mercury, we found that they started to accumulate at about the same time, suggesting that the resetting of Mercury's surface was global and likely due to volcanism,» said lead author Dr. Simone Marchi, who has a joint appointment between two of NASA's Lunar Science Institutes, one at the SwRI in Boulder and another at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

Citron will present a paper about the new analysis on March 20 at the annual Lunar and Planetary Science conference in Texas.

ARIEL Press Release (03/2018)-- ARIEL selected as ESA's next medium - class science mission ARIEL, a mission to answer fundamental questions about how planetary systems form and evolve, has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as its next medium - class science mission, due for launch in 2028.

Learn about the formation and origin of the Solar System and go beyond our neighborhood to investigate exoplanets (planets around other stars) in this video of class 11 of Bruce Betts» Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.

It adroitly explains the management, science, imagination, and public policy that have produced spectacular revelations about our planetary neighbors.»

The Mars Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Robert Pappalardo, a Project Scientist in JPL's Planetary Science Division, will provide an update about NASA's Europa Clipper mission during the 20th Annual International Mars Society Convention, scheduled for September 7 - 10, 2017 at the University of California Irvine.

Explore the physical characteristics and inner workings of the Sun and then learn all about Stars and Stellar Evolution in this video of class 12 of Bruce Betts» Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.

«The science from these recent observations is really interesting and what we've learned about the magnetic field is just the first part of it,» Catherine Johnson, a planetary scientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and lead author of the study, said in a statement.

Democrats on the Committee introduced a number of letters and statements into the record by preeminent science and space organizations expressing concern about the bill: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, the Association of American Universities, the American Astronomical Society, Universities Space Research Association, the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities, and the Planetary Sscience and space organizations expressing concern about the bill: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, the Association of American Universities, the American Astronomical Society, Universities Space Research Association, the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities, and the Planetary SScience, the American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, the Association of American Universities, the American Astronomical Society, Universities Space Research Association, the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities, and the Planetary Society.

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-...]

From possible ice volcanoes to twirling moons, NASA's New Horizons science team is discussing more than 50 exciting discoveries about Pluto at this week's 47th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences.

Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan learns why Director of Advocacy Casey Dreier is cautiously optimistic about the budget outlook for planetary science and exploration, so long as Planetary Society members and others keep making their voices heard in the nation'sPlanetary Radio host Mat Kaplan learns why Director of Advocacy Casey Dreier is cautiously optimistic about the budget outlook for planetary science and exploration, so long as Planetary Society members and others keep making their voices heard in the nation'splanetary science and exploration, so long as Planetary Society members and others keep making their voices heard in the nation'sPlanetary Society members and others keep making their voices heard in the nation's capitol.

«We now know more about TRAPPIST - 1 than any other planetary system apart from our own,» said Sean Carey, manager of the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech / IPAC in Pasadena, California, and co-author of the new study.

Bart LeahyApril 21st ORLANDO, Fla. — Adrienne Dove, a University of Central Florida (UCF) planetary scientist, physicist, and associate professor, capped off the university's 2018 Distinguished Speaker series with a talk about CubeSats and UCF's involvement with CubeSat - based science missions.

CB1 Gallery will host a panel discussion, Beneath the Midnight Sun: Art and Science in Antarctica, on Saturday, May 21, in which biologist Gretchen Hofmann of UC Santa Barbara and planetary geologist Joe Levy of University of Texas Institute for Geophysics will speak about collaborating with Simonson during her three - month residency on the ice.

About $ 1.5 billion is for (non Earth) planetary science, including spending on Mars missions and development of a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.

For those wanting more on the science, there's no better starting place than a recent talk by B. Lynn Ingram, a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of «The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow.science, there's no better starting place than a recent talk by B. Lynn Ingram, a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of «The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow.Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of «The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow.»

Your spurious sarcasm language aside the increase in knowledge about climate science over the last 25 years has been truly impressive (for example our understanding of how the increased heat retention gets moved around the planetary system).

I am pleased that the long established settled science relating to planetary atmospheres is now coming to the fore once more after about 20 years during which it was apparently suppressed by ideologues with a non - scientific agenda.

This event, held in Vienna from 8 - 13 April 2018, brings together geoscientists from all over the world to talk about topics from all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences.

Dr Norman Page and tallbloke, thank you for teaching Climate Etc readers about planetary - influence cycle - science; our kitty - cat is a huge fan of your novel climate - cycle theories!

By the way, «Science of Doom» (SoD) is totally incorrect about Venus and mistakenly states that its surface receives more than 10 times the insolation which the Russian calculated as a planetary mean from measurements made by probes which landed on the Venus surface..

One of these, reported in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, coincided with a spell between the Ice Ages, more than 115,000 years ago, when the Earth's average atmospheric temperatures rose by about 4 °C hotter than the 20th - century average.

With a decision that could have far - reaching implications, a federal judge in California has ordered the first ever U.S. court hearing on climate science for a «public nuisance» lawsuit, meaning that major oil and gas companies for the first time may have to go on the record regarding what they knew about the planetary impacts of their products — and when.

When President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology spread panic in August 2009 about the purported dangers of a swine flu epidemic breaking out later that year, Alex Newman wrote for The New American at that time: «The co-chair of Obama's advisory council that issued the report, John Holdren, actually co-authored a book titled Ecoscience calling for forced abortions, mass sterilization, and a «planetary regime» with the power to enforce the sick notions.

«It continues to amaze us; every time we look carefully we continue to find that Planet Nine explains something about the solar system that had long been a mystery,» says Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science.

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