Sentences with phrase «as planet serves»

Trying to set them up as planet serves no scientific purpose.

Not exact matches

While Interstellar seeks to find a new home planet, Wall - E wonders if we would not be better served staying on Earth, reversing the current habits of destruction and fulfilling our call as «maintainers.»

The thinking behind Marsbees is that the drone swarm will be able to explore the surface of the Red Planet in conjunction with a rover, which will serve as a mobile beehive.

He is a director of the Environmental Working Group and has served as a spokesperson for the NRDC and American Academy of Pediatrics; founding board member of Healthy Child / Healthy World and Mothers and Others for a Liveable Planet.

His rocket could also serve as a garbage truck, getting dead satellites and discarded upper - rocket stages out of their dangerous orbits around our planet (a job the larger chemical - fueled rockets can't perform efficiently because they use too much fuel).

Stott said she hopes that this will be the ultimate takeaway for viewers, for whom the series may serve as a reintroduction to the planet they thought they knew so well.

Molecular clouds hold most of the water in the universe, and serve as nurseries for newborn stars and their planets.

Moulton, an astronomer from the University of Chicago known for the planetesimal theory of planet formation, served as AAAS Permanent Secretary and then Administrative Secretary, 1937 to 1948.

But planetary bodies that formed in different parts of the solar system generally have different isotopic compositions, so different that the isotopic signatures serve as «fingerprints» for planets and meteorites from the same body.

I serve as a technical advisor to Linden Lab, the company that administers Second Life, but really, most of what I have done is watch in delight and amazement as thousands of creative individuals have signed up, logged in, and built an entire virtual planet.

Saturn's rings have served as a sort of time machine for Cassini's scientists, providing a look into the system's past, and the planet's mysterious interior.

«Scientists discover first super salty subglacial lakes in Canadian Arctic: Super salty water beneath ice could serve as a terrestrial analogue for a habitat for life on other planets.»

Because only neutrinos can travel through the planet unimpeded, Earth serves as an effective screen, filtering out all other types of particles.

This new planet is among the least endowed with such metals that we know of, and because it is so bright it should serve as a benchmark for comparative studies of how and under what conditions planets form.»

Talk about looking for Martians and you inevitably talk about water, the almost - magical liquid that sustains all life on Earth and seems to have served as an indispensable kick - starter for biology in our planet's deepest past.

«I see all of these efforts as very complementary, and we should do all of them if we can, because together they serve to paint a more complete picture of any planets that might exist around Alpha Centauri,» Belikov says.

(Full disclosure: one of us — Boettiger — serves without remuneration as an advisor to Planet Labs.)

Besides serving as eye candy for Mars enthusiasts, the detailed map will help mission planners select future landing sites where they can most efficiently explore the Red Planet's geological record.

«Curiosity not only will return a wealth of important science data, but it will serve as a precursor mission for human exploration to the Red Planet.»

Astronomers realized that spinning disks of gas always form around the nucleus of a new star, feeding it matter and serving as an incubator for the development of planets.

Elements heavier than hydrogen and helium were more abundant later in the star - forming boom as more massive stars ended their lives early and enriched the galaxy with material that served as the building blocks of planets and even life on Earth.

The existence of subsurface liquid water on Mars could also serve as a potential supply source for future red planet explorers.

A Senior Scientist at NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C., Dr. Meyer oversees the Mars program's science operations and planning and also serves as Program Scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory / Curiosity mission currently operating on the surface of the Red Planet.

The radial velocity analysis presented in this paper serves as example of the type of analysis that will be necessary to confirm the masses of TESS small planet candidates.

Most importantly, the bolometric fluxes and angular radii reported here for a total of 498 planet host stars - with median accuracies of 1.7 % and 1.8 %, respectively - serve as a fundamental dataset to permit the re-determination of transiting planet radii and masses with the Gaia second data release to ~ 3 % and ~ 5 % accuracy, better than currently published precisions, and determined in an entirely empirical fashion.

More than 190 nations and territories belong to WMO, which serves as the official «voice» on the status of the planet's atmosphere and how it is behaving.

Odyssey has done important planetary science and has served as a «call home» link for rovers on the Red Planet's surface.

This multi-purpose high - contrast visible and near - infrared (R - to K - band) instrument is not only intended to serve as a VLT - class «planet - imager» instrument in the Northern hemisphere, but also to operate as a technology demonstr... ▽ More The vector vortex is a coronagraphic imaging mode of the recently commissioned Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme - Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) platform on the 8 - m Subaru Telescope.

This multi-purpose high - contrast visible and near - infrared (R - to K - band) instrument is not only intended to serve as a VLT - class «planet - imager» instrument in the Northern hemisphere, but also to operate as a technology demonstration testbed ahead of the ELTs - era, with a particular emphasis on small inner - working angle (IWA) coronagraphic capabilities.

The tick marks serve as stable reference points when making precision measurements such as those of the small shifts in starlight caused by planets pulling gravitationally on their parent stars.

Apr. 16, 2018 — Vanderbilt's Keivan Stassun serves as a deputy principal investigator on the mission and is tasked with identifying the most promising stars to target in its search for habitable nearby planets.

She then worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Mars Program Office where she served as the Mars Sample Return Science System Engineer and worked on formulation of sample science and astrobiology investigations for future robotic missions, as well as long - term planning for potential human missions to the red planet.

MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — A team of researchers led by Justin R. Crepp, the Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has directly imaged a very rare type of brown dwarf that can serve as a benchmark for studying objects with masses that lie between stars and planets.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A team of astronomers discovered a Jupiter - like planet within a young system that could serve as a decoder ring for understanding how planets formed around our sun.

The Mars Express orbiter, which served as Beagle 2's mothership, is still studying the Red Planet, more than 11 years after its arrival.

51 Eri b serves as «a bridge from wider - orbit, hotter and more massive planets to Jupiter - like scales.»

After a great deal of analysis the OGLE team finally concluded that the system must have formed in a similar way to how a star / planet / moon system must form and could serve as a «missing link» between what we know about planet formation and what we hope to learn about moon formation.

The agency recently announced that its Mars plan now includes building a «deep - space gateway» around the moon to serve as a testing ground for operations and technology that will be required for those Red Planet missions, Williams said.

In nature, these fungi serve as a catalyst — speeding decomposition and ridding the planet of megatons of dead plant matter.

In fact, studies of the few remaining indigenous cultures on the planet show humans once served as host to significantly more gut bacteria than is found in Westerners today.

1 to always be a guest on this planet 2 to leave my past behind and be reborn 3 to slow down my breath for a much richer life 4 to meet my teacher at least once in this lifetime 5 to die while still alive 6 to falter and fall, as my teacher's job is to pick me up again and again 7 to insult and abuse my teacher, as he / she is the neutral one 8 to get uplifted by my teacher, at ways expected or unexpected 9 to obey 10 to serve 11 to love 12 to excel

We discuss her own journey from mystic child to depressed college student to literally being struck by lightning to awaken the dormant kundalini energy that existed inside of her so she can serve her mission on this planet as an international Kundalini Yoga Teacher.

After crash - landing on Sakaar — a scummy junkyard planet surrounded by wormholes — Thor is captured by scavengers and taken to serve as a gladiator for the planet's eccentric ruler, known as the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum).

Most recently, he has served as a producer on the New Orleans — shot pilot Shepherd, was the Production Manager on the Animal Planet series Pit Bulls and Parolees.

Pretty quickly, the film turns into a horror show, with the airborne, microscopic spores from a plant on the planet serving as the way those killer aliens end up in their human hosts (Scott offers a microscope - level shot of the infection entering a crewmember's body through his ear canal, which is simultaneously frightening and deviously amusing).

Once the rovers land, they're to serve as geologist - documentarians, photographing and examining our neighboring planet's terrain.

Mutant Chronicles (R for graphic violence and pervasive profanity) Futuristic sci - fi adventure revolving around a couple of soldiers (Thomas Jane and Sean Pertwee) serving as corporate mercenaries who assemble a band of intrepid warriors to defend the planet when Earth is invaded by an evil race of necromutants.

The sexual tension between a curly - haired, side - whiskered Doc and the former prom queen - turned aspiring hippie starlet - turned kept woman is palatable, and fuels the fiction, yet, as any respectable PI, Doc meets a lot of available ladies throughout, whether he beds them or not: Jena Malone (a classic California blonde with a sordid heroin past), Reese Witherspoon (a hard - as - nail but o so classy deputy D.A.), Maya Rudolph (too sexy to be «just a receptionist»), Hong Chau (an employee of the «Chick Planet» massage parlour, who warns him about the Golden Fang gang), newcomer Sasha Fenway (as Japonica Fenway, a poor little rich girl who can't find enough mischief to commit), Yvette Yates (as the hot Chicana maid who thrusts her butt in Doc's direction while serving drinks to her mistress), Joanne Newsom (as the elusive Sortilège) and the fabulous Jeannie Berlin as Doc's I - know - it - all formidable auntie.

Gamora's death served as Thanos's sacrifice — the cost he had to pay to retrieve the Soul Stone from the mysterious, liminal planet Vormir.

Leonardo DiCaprio serves as the film's narrator and central figure as he explores the ravages of global warming on the planet, and the apocalyptic state we will be living in if action isn't taken immediately.