Sentences with phrase «as terrestrial planets»

It's possible that instead of forming as terrestrial planets in place, rocky planets orbiting their stars every few days formed further out beyond the snow line where they accreted large amounts of gas before migrating and being stripped of their atmospheres.

So, if you take Pluto, Charon, and Triton, these are three of the 10 largest bodies in the Kuiper Belt and they are each very different from one another, just as the terrestrial planets — Venus, Earth and Mars, and Mercury — are very different.

Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler - 16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn.

Still, NASA decided several years ago that the prize was worthy of the challenge and began working on a mission known as the Terrestrial Planet Finder.

The Keck Interferometer will be able to detect planets farther from their parent stars, which means their reflected light would be dimmer and harder to detect.The unique pairing process will help pave the way for future interferometers in space, such as the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which will look for Earthlike planets.

Let's say that the Galilean - equivalent planets of a brown dwarf would be significantly larger than their prototypes, having grown in proportion somewhat in proportion to their primary, and that they were at least as dense as any terrestrial planet never mind more massive.

Not exact matches

So far, 2,335 candidates have been confirmed as planets and they include about 30 temperate, terrestrial worlds.

The wildebeest migration is the largest terrestrial migration on the planet, and others of its kind have largely disappeared as humans have killed off animals or cut off their migration routes.

Argon - 40 results from the decay of naturally occurring radioactive potassium - 40, found in the rocks of all the terrestrial planets as a leftover from their formation.

The role of sulfur on magma composition was difficult to predict as Mercury is the only terrestrial planet with such high sulfur concentrations (1 to 4 weight %).

Other projects were downsized, and a few, such as Nustar and the Terrestrial Planet Finder, were put on hold indefinitely.

«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.»

The lava field on which we stood was terrestrial, but it could just as easily have been on the next planet over.

For every type of star in the simulation, Forgan and his colleagues estimated the probability that terrestrial planets would form, some of which might be Earth — like or might be as inhospitable as Mercury.

Simulating the assembly of the solar system around 4.56 billion years ago, researchers propose that the Red Planet didn't form in the inner solar system alongside the other terrestrial planets as previously thought.

He adds that the search could be optimised by visiting only those stars that harbour habitable planets, which could be identified by planet - finding missions such as NASA's Terrestrial Planet Fplanet - finding missions such as NASA's Terrestrial Planet FPlanet Finder.

As we learn more about our own planet and the evolutionary history of terrestrial life we feel a stronger urge than ever to put it into context.

Finally, the planet - distribution of Brown (2003) is one of hot giant planets; CoRoT's results contain to date 5 hot giants which follow approximately the distribution of Brown, and one terrestrial planet (CoRoT - 7b), visible as a small peak at a transit depth of 0.04 % in Fig. 2.

In a recent paper titled, «Demarcating circulation regimes of synchronously rotating terrestrial planets within the habitable zone,» my co-authors and I analyze a set of climate model calculations to examine the dependence upon stellar effective temperature of the atmospheric dynamics of planets as they move closer to the inner edge of the habitable zone.

This leaves plenty of elbowroom for undetected terrestrial planets to huddle close their star, just as Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars do.What's more, the gas giants could irrigate parched inner terrestrial planets with ices from comets and asteroids they perturb.

As Iota Persei has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

Stars A and B were selected as two of the top 100 target stars for NASA's indefinitely postponed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) to directly image small rocky planets in Earth - type habitable orbits.

Due in part to the discovery of planetary companions, Upsilon Andromedae A was identified as one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF).

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Upsilon Andromedae A as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now indefinitely delayed.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Iota Persei as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

As Beta Hydri has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

As a result, further understanding of the processes that drive volatile cycling on terrestrial planets is needed to determine the water fraction at which they are likely to become waterworlds.

There is evidence that Earth has gone through at least one globally frozen, «snowball» state in the last billion years, which i... ▽ More Although the Earth's orbit is never far from circular, terrestrial planets around other stars might experience substantial changes in eccentricity that could lead to climate changes, including possible «phase transitions» such as the snowball transition (or its opposite).

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Gamma Pavonis as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

As Gamma Pavonis has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Zeta1 Reticuli as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now postponed indefinitely.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified 47 Ursae Majoris as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now indefinitely delayed.

As Zeta Tucanae has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

As high - altitude clouds and hazes are not expected in hydrogen - dominated atmospheres around planets with such insolation15, 16, these observations further support their terrestrial and potentially habitable nature.

As HD 147513 A has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

«We are using Io as a volcanic laboratory, where we can look back into the past of the terrestrial planets to get a better understanding of how these large eruptions took place, and how fast and how long they lasted,» Davies said.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Beta Comae as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

The NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder was one such program, but as of February 2006 this program had been put on indefinite hold.

In late September 2003, astrobiologist Maggie Turnbull from the University of Arizona in Tucson identified 37 Geminorum as one of the best candidates for hosting Earth - type life from a shortlist of 30 stars (screened from the 5,000 or so stars that are estimated to be located within 100 ly of Earth) that were presented to a group of scientists from NASA's space - telescope project, the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), which will search for habitable planets by using visible light with the «signature» of water and / or oxygen from an Earth - type planet after its scheduled launch around 2013, and the ESA's Darwin project involving six space telescopes (Astrobiology MagaPlanet Finder (TPF), which will search for habitable planets by using visible light with the «signature» of water and / or oxygen from an Earth - type planet after its scheduled launch around 2013, and the ESA's Darwin project involving six space telescopes (Astrobiology Magaplanet after its scheduled launch around 2013, and the ESA's Darwin project involving six space telescopes (Astrobiology Magazine).

The table also organizes the planets according to size, including various forms of terrestrial, rocky planets (which Méndez refers to as «terrans»), and gassy exoplanets resembling Neptune and Jupiter.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified HD 147513 A as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.

We have a triple star system as neighbor, i would be shocked if none of them has a terrestrial planet on the habitable zone, i mean for real, every couple of years we search again and restrains the upper mass / size limits of them, at this point we know there are not giant planets there, so we have 3 star system very likely to host terrestrial planets, that's just amazing.

at this scale, the orbits of the inner terrestrial planets are very small, and thus can not be seen as clearly as the orbits of the outer planets.

As 61 Ursae Majoris has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

In 1980, Andy led the Minor Planet Group as part of the then Terrestrial Planets Section before in 1984 becoming the founding director of the Minor Planets Section, later to become the Asteroids and Remote Planets Section.

It will perhaps even detect signs of extra-terrestrial life as the SKA will be sensitive enough to detect signals, comparable to terrestrial television transmitters, from planets in nearby solar systems.

1:20 PM Liu - Abundance Studies of Stellar Hosts of Terrestrial Planets 1:40 PM Kitiashvili - 3D Realistic Modeling of Stellar Convection as a Tool to Study Effects of Stellar Jitter on RV Measurements 2:00 PM Crossfield - Planet Densities (invited) 2:30 PM Break and Poster Viewing 3:00 PM Guyon - Coronagraphs for Planet Detection (invited) 3:30 PM Martins - Exoplanet Reflections in the era of Giant Telescopes 3:50 PM Close - Direct Detection of Exoplanets with GMT AO: A proof of concept design for a GMT Phase A ExAO planet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss - SPlanet Densities (invited) 2:30 PM Break and Poster Viewing 3:00 PM Guyon - Coronagraphs for Planet Detection (invited) 3:30 PM Martins - Exoplanet Reflections in the era of Giant Telescopes 3:50 PM Close - Direct Detection of Exoplanets with GMT AO: A proof of concept design for a GMT Phase A ExAO planet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss - SPlanet Detection (invited) 3:30 PM Martins - Exoplanet Reflections in the era of Giant Telescopes 3:50 PM Close - Direct Detection of Exoplanets with GMT AO: A proof of concept design for a GMT Phase A ExAO planet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss - Splanet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss - Summary

As Alpha Mensae has become one of the top 100 target stars for NASA's planned Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), images of this star and its position relative to the Milky Way in Earth's night sky are now available from the TPF - C team.

«We are using Io as a volcanic laboratory, where we can look back into the past of the terrestrial planets to get a better understanding of how these large eruptions took place, and how fast and how long they lasted,» states Davies.

JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration Astronomers have identified Alpha Mensae as a prime target for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), now planned for launch between 2014 and 2020.