Sentences with phrase «also of the planetary science»

The interpretation is robust, says geologist Joseph Michalski, also of the Planetary Science Institute.

Not exact matches

Not only do scientists need to find a place on Europa's surface that will be worth studying, they also need to find a place to land that won't completely destroy the lander upon touch down, Jim Green, NASA's Director of Planetary Science, told Business Insider.

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.

The stone is also markedly carbon - rich, more so than other known extraterrestrial material aside from comets, the researchers will report in an upcoming issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Knowledge of astronomy, astrobiology, and planetary science is also key.

Also within planetary science, the bill boosts the budget of the low - cost, competitive Discovery program to $ 189 million, which is a good sign that the agency will be able to get on to a faster path with its launches.

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 that solutions space, there also lies a new charter for the social sciences; a call for more — and better — social scientific knowledge to inform and inspire the kind of transformative responses needed to face humanity's greatest challenge: to simultaneously safeguard planetary resources, social equity, and human wellbeing.

Romps» co-authors are Jacob Seeley, also of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley, and David Vollaro and John Molinari of the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at UAlbany.

He is also Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in Harvard's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Visiting Distinguished Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center.

«NASA first mission to distant Pluto will also be humankind's first close up view of this cold, unexplored world in our solar system,» said Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division at the agency's Headquarters in Washington.

In the meantime Patrick Shore, a research scientist in earth and planetary science, and two Washington University students had set sail across the ocean in a tiny vessel, the Kaiyu III, to install seismometers on the Mariana islands that will also supply data for the «passive» stage of the survey.

Many of the tough, but also very exciting questions go beyond astrophysics and connect to planetary sciences, geophysics, geochemistry, and atmospheric sciences: fortunately, we could draw on multi-disciplinary expertise from the NASA NExSS group to explore these questions.

However, the bill also requires the National Research Council (NRC) to certify that the new Mars program will lead to accomplishment of a Mars sample return mission as dictated by the recent NRC Decadal Survey for planetary science or the money will be reallocated to study Jupiter's moon Europa.

(Though other theories suggest that it might hurl space rocks at us, so it also could be the antihero of planetary science.)

Dr. Sakanoi received his Ph.D. from Tohoku University, where he is also currently employed as an associate professor of the Planetary Plasma and Atmospheric Research Center, Graduate School of Science.

As far as science can tell, there's never, until now, been a point when a species became a planetary powerhouse and also became aware of that situation.

The newest paper, in the current issue of Science, «Varying planetary heat sink led to global - warming slowdown and acceleration,» argues that the Atlantic not only has shaped the current plateau, but also was responsible for half of the sharp global warming at the end of the 20th century.

Romps» co-authors are Jacob Seeley, also of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley, and David Vollaro and John Molinari of the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at UAlbany.

In addition to Dozier, the other participants in the study week from California were Michael Ghil of UCLA's Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics; Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, based in Oakland; Wolfgang Panofsky of Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center; Elisabeth Paté - Cornell, also from Stanford; and Mikhail Rabinovich of the Institute for Nonlinear Science at the University of California at San Diego.