Sentences with phrase «by mission scientists»

A unique aspect of the workshop was participation by mission scientists and instrument leads who designed and presented classroom activities.The objective of the Van Allen Probes E / PO effort is to prepare teachers to engage and educate students in STEM content and Van Allen Probes heliophysics - related science as well as engineering and technology.

Dubbed the first planetary meteorological satellite by mission scientists, Akatsuki was supposed to orbit Venus for 2 years, using its five cameras operating at ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths to track clouds at different altitudes and watch for venusian lightning.

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«We are delighted that Jon has accepted this position, which ensures that management of one of Mass Audubon's most mission - critical and identifiable programs will be overseen by a scientist of both impressive ability in the field and substantial research experience,» Director of Conservation Science Jeff Collins said.

A voice for science and scientists everywhere, AAAS fulfills its mission to «advance science and serve society» by communicating the value of science to the public, helping governments formulate science policy, promoting advancements in science education and diversity, and helping scientists develop their careers.

The Program carries out its mission by engaging individual scientists and scientific associations in human rights efforts; applying scientific tools and technologies to enhance human rights work; bringing human rights standards to the conduct of science; and promoting the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress.»

Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions — a permanently shadowed crater on the moon.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

The missions are led by scientists, either from a NASA center or a university, and NASA has launched more than 90 of them since the 1950s.

Through September 16, Exploratorium visitors can inspect a full - scale replica of the sedan - size rover and learn about the mission through a dozen live discussions led by NASA scientists and engineers.

The overall mission is to promote UCSF entrepreneurs by «establishing a network of Bay Area scientists and business professionals interested in life science entrepreneurship [and] helping entrepreneurs develop their innovative ideas into viable businesses.»

This once - per - decade report is assembled over many years by groups of scientists who evaluate the state of these fields and make recommendations for the types of missions (or specific missions) that NASA should pursue.

A new mission would likely head for Encke, a comet described as «evolved, degassed, used - up, and as old as possible» by Contour mission leader Joseph Veverka, a planetary scientist at Cornell University.

Planned for launch by 2025, the mission is being financed in part by European partners and involves hundreds of scientists from 20 countries.

Still, by knowing that Mars's methane comes from discrete areas, scientists can look for new sources and target the regions for future lander missions.

When ORACLES scientists return to Namibia next August, they hope to be joined by French and U.K. researchers, who postponed their missions for at least a year when they didn't get diplomatic clearances.

Mega's decision to move in March to Google was one in a string of announcements by top - flight scientists and physicians who are enlisting in the mission, and pioneering a new type of career path in the process.

Led by Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, the Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability (ELSAH) mission would fly through a plume to seek out signs of biology lurking within the tiny moon.

The institute's mission is to promote dialogue between science and society by training 15 mid-career scientists per year to develop public - engagement activities in their home communities.

It was a sentiment sounded by the AAAS Board of Directors when it adopted on April 16, 2010 its position that «Recognizing that this right lies at the heart of the AAAS mission and the social responsibilities of scientists, AAAS will pursue opportunities to collaborate with the global scientific community so that the voice, interests and concerns of scientists can be brought to this process.»

Arguments for this idea are laid out in a study by Phoenix team member Nilton Renno of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and co-authored by 21 other researchers, including the mission's chief scientist, Peter Smith of the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Almost all India's space research is headed up by the Bangalore - based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon mission.

(NASA's rovers have seen so many that mission scientists often drive by without a second look.)

In total, the mission gave us 21 complete images of Mars, including this, our first close view of the planet — courtesy of data transmitted by the interplanetary probe and earth - bound scientists wielding pastels (below).

«The ionosphere doesn't only react to energy input by solar storms,» said Scott England, a space scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who works on both the ICON and GOLD missions.

By the time the mission is completed, scientists hope to get answers on why Mercury is so dense and understand its geological history, the structure of its iron - rich core and other issues.

Any methane produced by organisms billions of years ago could be buried deep in the planet and periodically disturbed and vented to the surface through cracks, said mission scientist Sushil Atreya of the University of Michigan.

Schmidt is part of a team of scientists in the early stages of developing a NASA mission, called Europa Clipper, which will investigate these questions by placing a reconnaissance spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter.

Many of the experiments carried out by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission's Curiosity rover were painstakingly planned by NASA scientists more than a decade ago.

The winch, pedaled by crew members and scientists, gradually deploys water - sampling equipment that delivers samples central to the mission: to characterize and understand the currents below the sea ice on which the scientists» tents rest.

Yet Armstrong was the first to deprecate his own role and acknowledge the part played by all the NASA scientists and engineers involved in the moon missions.

InSight is not the only Discovery mission with a science payload dominated by foreign scientists.

Scientists on that mission claimed to find protons — perhaps a small radiation belt trapped by Mercury's magnetic field.

The Target NEO 2: Open Community Workshop was organized by a group of planetary scientists alarmed at the way that NASA had conceived and then announced its Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM) in early April.

«We're doing this research for commonsense reasons — as a potential solution to the challenges posed by the exhaustion of fossil fuels and global warming,» says Hiroaki Suzuki of JAXA's Advanced Mission Research Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on the scheme.

The first evidence of the presence of this super hot plasma was presented by Adrian Daw, a solar scientist at Goddard and principal investigator of the Extreme Ultraviolet Normal Incidence Spectrograph, or EUNIS, sounding rocket mission.

This country must live by its wits, yet scientists and engineers are pushed into mission - oriented work, their salaries and status have slipped, and career structures are under threat.

However, mission scientists said they did spy a thermal flash and spotted a crater, perhaps 20 metres wide, created by the impact.

Another first for the mission is that the scientists will be able to work from their home institutions by means of interactive work stations.

Mission scientists announced preliminary results from the experiment in November 2009, including the spectral signature of water in the debris plume tossed up by the impact.

Armstrong's role on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the moon was to serve, alongside crewmates Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, as the tip of an immense wedge to penetrate the unknown, backed up by thousands of scientists and engineers and propelled by a brash nation bent on achieving the impossible.

If the Lynx mission concept wins approval and is funded by NASA, it will vastly increase scientists» capacity to observe shocks between galaxy clusters, making important contributions to their mapping of the universe.

A SMALL but vocal group led by Alan Stern, the scientist in charge of NASA's New Horizons mission, is trying to reverse the decision made over a decade ago to remove Pluto's planet status.

This mission is fulfilled by operating atmospheric observatories around the world that collect massive amounts of atmospheric measurements to provide data products that help scientists study the effects and interactions of clouds and aerosols and their impact on the earth's energy balance.

Eye and Ear clinicians and scientists are driven by a mission to find cures for blindness, deafness and diseases of the head and neck.

Psyche would be a mission to something never examined before up close — a metallic asteroid, the metallic core of a protoplanet where the outer rocky layers (and any atmosphere) had been «stripped away» by a violent impact with another object, according to planetary scientists.

«For me, the highlights of Voyager were clearly the planetary encounters,» recalled Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist, in a series of personal mission stories published by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The mission of the new institute is to accelerate discoveries by including data scientists in technology development and research from the beginning to the end of the scientific process, rather than as a final step when opportunities for new insights have already been missed.

«One of the most wonderful changes that has come to NASA over the last decade is the way they share images with the public,» says Lakdawalla, who explains that once upon a time, data would be sent back from missions for use only by scientists, who might publish a paper months later with a smattering of images.

NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) uniquely contributes to this effort by partnering scientists, educators, and communicators in providing authentic science - based content and experiences based on identified audience needs and refined by rigorous evaluation.

The new Mars photo by Opportunity shows a close - up of a rock outcrop called Kirkwood covered in blister - like bumps that mission scientists can't yet explain.