Sentences with phrase «by planetary scientists»

Led by planetary scientists Douglas Hemingway and Francis Nimmo at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the study used new data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

That's not the case with the new cluster, reported in the 13 June issue of Nature by planetary scientist David Nesvorný of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and his colleagues.

A team led by planetary scientist Philippe Lamy of the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale in Marseilles, France, used the Hubble Space Telescope in March to measure the light reflected from the comet.

Located 149 light years away in the constellation Cygnus the Swan, it was discovered by planetary scientist Maciej Konacki of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena with the 10 - meter Keck telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

One of those blind dart tosses hit a bull's - eye: a class about life in the universe taught by planetary scientist Robert Brown.

Now this comes from a, this piece of it comes from a 2003 paper by a planetary scientist named Jack Wisdom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and what he discovered is that you can move, as you [were describing] through curved space by moving, [let's] say, your arms and legs, or if you're an alien as it is described in the article, a tripod alien — just for the simplicity of demonstrating how the movements are with, sort of, heavy feet and a ball at the end of the tail that helped to move the [weight] around, just to make it kind of simple to look through — you can move through curved spacetime without pushing against anything, and this is the key here.

In November, researchers led by planetary scientist Peter Brown of Canada's University of Western

So - called «tiger stripes» on Enceladus were first reported in 2006 by planetary scientist Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Not exact matches

Scientists buoy our longing for clarity by enumerating laws and speaking of atoms and electrons, but, laments Camus even they are reduced to using the «poetry» of planetary systems, i.e., they Can not rationally seize the reality they study.

In a breakthrough study, an international team of scientists, including Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from the University of Leicester, has solved an age - old scientific riddle by discovering that planetary rings, such as those orbiting Saturn, have a universally similar particle distribution.

Based on a culmination of ten years of research work, the new method to estimate more accurate distances between planetary nebulae and the Earth developed by HKU astronomers promises a new era in scientists» ability to study and understand the fascinating if brief period in the final stages of the lives of low - and mid-mass stars.

First, planetary scientists suspect that cyanide was abundant on early Earth, deposited here by comets or created in the atmosphere by ultraviolet light or by lightning (once the atmosphere became oxygen rich, 2.5 billion years ago, the process would have stopped).

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.

So, this [broader] notion of planetary boundaries is something that a group of scientists around the world, led by Stockholm University and others, who had [recently] been pulling together to say, «Wait a minute.

Planetary scientists have previously invoked tectonics — the cracking of a body by forces in the crust — as a way of opening up planetary interiors and allowing resPlanetary scientists have previously invoked tectonics — the cracking of a body by forces in the crust — as a way of opening up planetary interiors and allowing resplanetary interiors and allowing resurfacing.

Planetary scientist Margaret Kivelson of the University of California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues found that Ganymede's internal field shuddered on its axis by 3.6 angular degrees as Jupiter's field rocked back and forth.

Planetary scientists started to recognize that Pluto's neighborhood is as rich and complex as the more familiar regions filled by the rocky and gas giant planets.

A postdoc at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona and an associate research scientist with the Planetary Science Institute, Richmond is frustrated by her struggle for stability.

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.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

Planetary scientists think magnetic fields are produced by the churning of a planet's molten iron core.

The moon appears to be a tranquil place, but modeling done by University of New Hampshire and NASA scientists suggests that, over the eons, periodic storms of solar energetic particles may have significantly altered the properties of the soil in the moon's coldest craters through the process of sparking — a finding that could change our understanding of the evolution of planetary surfaces in the solar system.

By showing the value of recording those motions, ROMY could pave the way for miniature sensors that could help oil and gas prospectors and even planetary scientists who want to listen for tremors on the moon and Mars.

Mars Attacked: Planetary Scientists Vent Frustrations over Proposed Budget Cuts The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars Planetary Scientists Vent Frustrations over Proposed Budget Cuts The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars explorers

One bid for preservation initiated in 2009 by 29 scientists from around the world focused on the concept of planetary boundaries.

By STEVE NADIS A handful of planetary scientists, aeronautical engineers and space fanatics have a dream.

Then in the mid-1970s, planetary scientist William K. Hartmann and a few others proposed that the moon was formed by the collision of a Mars - size planet with the Earth.

«I have always dreamed of going to Mars,» said Serina Diniega, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of a report published online by the journal Icarus.

Each morning, planetary scientist Mike Brown sits down in his office at Caltech and sifts through a few hundred images gathered the previous night by the Samuel Oschin telescope atop Palomar Mountain in California.

There, the microscopically small grains of rock from the core are catapulted along with ice particles into space, where they were measured by the instruments on the Cassini space probe,» explained the Heidelberg planetary scientist.

To dig a few centimeters deeper into Mercury's surface, solar physicist Amir Caspi and planetary scientist Constantine Tsang of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues will use an infrared camera, specially built by Alabama - based Southern Research, that detects wavelengths between 3 and 5 micrometers.

Planetary scientists long skeptical offinding extraterrestrial life are intrigued by the discovery of deepmicrobes.

According to a sample of scientists contacted by ClimateWire, however, the revised ETS does not much alter the picture of overall planetary warming or how humanity needs to respond to it.

A new analysis by geophysicist Steven Ward and planetary scientist Erik Asphaug of the University of California, Santa Cruz, concludes that the biggest tsunami hazard arises from asteroids between 30 and a few hundred meters across, which may strike the ocean every 1000 to 100,000 years.

Planetary scientists expect that mixtures of dust and ice turn black after billions of years of irradiation by photons and high - energy particles from the sun, but they don't yet know the details of that composition.

Sasselov is working with planetary scientists and cosmochemists to answer these questions by analyzing concentrations of molecules in the universe and on the extrasolar planets they suspect may harbor life.

Jim Green, the head of NASA's Planetary Science Division, shook things up for planetary scientists this week by announcing a restructuring that will change how the division funds grant pPlanetary Science Division, shook things up for planetary scientists this week by announcing a restructuring that will change how the division funds grant pplanetary scientists this week by announcing a restructuring that will change how the division funds grant proposals.

A layer of iron and other elements deep underground is the evidence scientists have long been seeking to support the hypothesis that the moon was formed by a planetary object hitting the infant Earth some 4.5 billion years ago, a new study led by Johns Hopkins University scientists argues.

The sense of relief was shared by David Kring, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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.

The strongest evidence for methane comes from a team led by Michael Mumma, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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.

They can improve the sensitivity of their measurements at least 10-fold by pumping the carbon dioxide out of their samples to concentrate the other substances in them, says Paul Mahaffy, a planetary scientist at Goddard and a member of the TLS team: «My one - liner would be, the hunt for the elusive methane continues.»

«If you're going to spend $ 1.25 billion plus launch vehicle costs to do something,» said council chair Steve Squyres, a Cornell planetary scientist, «and you get the most important things by not going after the rock, don't go after the rock.»

Planetary scientist Will Grundy of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., and colleagues used images of Charon taken by the New Horizons spacecraft and computational analysis to demonstrate that methane from Pluto is a reasonable culprit for Charon's rust - colored pole.

Daniel Schrag gets visitors all the time — graduate students in despair over their dissertations, fellow faculty members dropping by to chat about the Cretaceous sulfur cycle or some equally abstruse topic, or visiting scientists collaborating with him on one of the scores of scholarly papers he has churned out in a career that has earned him a professorship in Harvard's department of earth and planetary sciences and a MacArthur genius grant.

Dragonfly is led by Elizabeth «Zibi» Turtle, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

To verify this bounty of planets, a research team co-led by Jack Lissauer, planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., analyzed stars with more than one potential planet, all of which were detected in the first two years of Kepler's observations — May 2009 to March 2011.

By modeling the ingredients in these carbon - based planetary systems, the scientists determined they lack icy water reservoirs thought to supply planets with oceans.

NASA / JPL - Caltech / Cornell University THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Planetary scientists, usually an affable lot, are plenty riled up at the moment.The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars ePlanetary scientists, usually an affable lot, are plenty riled up at the moment.The field is bristling at cutbacks, proposed last month by the Obama administration, to planetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars eplanetary science and especially to NASA's program of robotic Mars explorers.