Sentences with phrase «by planetary geologist»

Silver Award: Robbie McEwan Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation «Chasing Meteors» Dec. 5, 2016 Deep in the Outback of southern Australia, Robbie McEwan recounted the hurried chase by planetary geologist Phil Bland and colleagues to find a meteorite that had been sighted by a cook taking a break on the veranda of a pub in a dusty desert town.

LIFE ON MARS A Martian microbe, envisioned by planetary geologist Kathie Thomas - Keprta, would need a tough outer wall to withstand the elements and magnetic crystals to help it navigate.

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Unlike natural bridges on Earth, which form largely by erosion from wind and water, these lunar bridges probably formed as a result of an impact in the last billion years, says Mark Robinson, a planetary geologist at Arizona State University in Tempe and principal investigator for LRO's camera.

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But the first solid evidence didn't arrive until September, when a team of planetary geologists announced it might have solved the mystery by treating the moon's crust like a jigsaw puzzle.

The paper is titled «Processing of meteoritic organic materials as a possible analog of early molecular evolution in planetary environments,» and is co-authored by Pizzarello, geologist Lynda Williams, NMR specialist Gregory Holland and graduate student Stephen Davidowski, all from ASU.

And planetary geologists had seen signs in the moon's surface lavas that indicate that its 100 known volcanic hot spots are fed by a deep magma «ocean.»

The discovery was made by Simon Kattenhorn, a geologist previously at the University of Idaho in Moscow, and Louise Prockter, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., after looking through photographs from the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.

Titan, the largest of Saturn's more than 60 moons, has surprisingly intense rainstorms, according to research by a team of UCLA planetary scientists and geologists.

The first floor gallery is an all - encompassing installation that reveals an encounter with a 120 - pound meteorite recently gifted to the artists by Dr. William Cassidy, a planetary geologist from the University of Pittsburgh and main scientist of the Campo del Cielo meteorite fall.