Sentences with phrase «became habitable»

After 24 months of work, the wing became habitable again for the first time in many years and the results are a spectacular success.

«This confirms our view of how the Earth cooled and became habitable,» says Valley, a geochemist whose studies of zircons, the oldest known terrestrial materials, have helped portray how the Earth's crust formed during the first geologic eon of the planet.

So Froese and Ives set out to find when the corridor became habitable using a new tool: bison fossils.

But the idea that their ancestors at least trekked through the corridor persisted, says Meltzer, even though there was little consensus on when the passage opened or when it became habitable.

The analysis, published online in Nature on August 10 and led by palaeogeneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen, suggests that the passageway became habitable 12,600 years ago.

Both homes were completely transformed to become habitable, safe and clean, more than two months following the storm.

The world will have become habitable for Thought.

But on the whole, you will get a much milder winter, and, if the sun comes out, even the beach becomes habitable — if you're content to forgo swimming (despite the warmth of the Indian Ocean).

You know even in a glaciation, Doggerland becomes habitable for us mammals, is not currently sufficiently dry for us there now.

As these uninhabitable areas become habitable for the first time in history, competition from the various coastal countries and islands who have lost their native homeland will become fierce.

2014 is right around the corner and the sewing room has just become habitable.

Not exact matches

According to Agih, it had become imperative to renovate the lodge in order to make it habitable for the Governor to occupy and put an end to his continuous stay at his private residence.

Almost as soon as it was habitable, Earth became inhabited.

The answers will not only help explain how Earth became an ideal place for incubating life; they will also tell a lot about the odds of finding similar habitable planets around other stars.

fl = the fraction of habitable planets that have life As we move to the right in Drake's equation, the values of the terms become increasingly uncertain.

The problem is we have no idea what the true occurrence of genuinely habitable planets is, or the likelihood of complex life, or how often it might become recognisably intelligent and then survive long enough to be noticed.

The news strengthens many astronomers» suspicions that habitable planets are common and that more exciting discoveries are likely as better telescopes become available.

There are several subspecies which occur in different world regions, including also the ubiquitous domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus), which has been introduced to every habitable continent and most of the world's larger islands, and has become feral in many of those environments.

The oldest detected Kepler planets (exoplanets found using NASA's Kepler telescope) are about 11 billion years old, and the planetary diversity suggests that around other stars, such initially frozen worlds could be the size of Earth and could even provide habitable conditions once the star becomes older.

However, in a few billion years our sun will become a red giant, engulfing Mercury and Venus, turning Earth and Mars into sizzling rocky planets, and warming distant worlds like Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune — and their moons — in a newly established red giant habitable zone.

According to SETI Institute scientist Isabel Angelo, the study of planets similar to the Venus analog Kepler - 1649b is «becoming increasingly important in order to understand the habitable zone boundaries of M dwarfs.

In the late 2020s, the Thirty Meter Telescope will become the world's biggest ground - based optical telescope and, when used in conjunction with HDC, astronomers will soon be able to study the atmospheres of potentially habitable worlds orbiting red dwarfs.

A scientific study finds that an Earth - sized water world revolving around two suns could remain habitable at a certain distance — and it won't become a desert like Tatooine!

Since December 2012 Tau Ceti has become even more appealing, thanks to evidence of possibly five planets orbiting it, with two of these — Tau Ceti e and f — potentially residing in the habitable zone.

Some of these planets may lie in their star's habitable zone and could become targets for future research missions that would assess their ability to harbor life.

Hence, planets that are currently very cold and icy can warm up and become potentially habitable.

But if we know of maybe 15 planets we're pretty sure are in their habitable zones, the targets get more limited and the project becomes a lot cheaper.»

The concept has become particularly important in the search for habitable exoplanets, since the runaway greenhouse (or in some cases a more intermediate «moist stratosphere» case) defines how close to a particular star you can push a planet to dehydrate that planet and terminate any prospet for life.

Competition of Newly Habitable Lands - The opposite scenario of crowding may also occur as the open space around the Arctic regions becomes available due to the increased air temperatures.

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.

It's become a depressingly stupid debate in Australia about the price of electricity, rather than about keeping our only home habitable.

There is no specific definition of what is habitable or enclosed space in the Sectional Titles Act, but whatever decision is made by the trustees becomes a precedent for the rest of the scheme and they must be careful in deciding what the ruling will be, said Bauer.

If the habitable space in the unit increases, it becomes a larger section then section 24 of the Sectional Titles Act applies, said Bauer, which would then mean that the PQ factor is higher and the levy will be higher.

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