Sentences with phrase «clues about the planet»
We analyze a sample of 1194 stars drawn from the California Planet Survey targets to determine the empirical functional form describing the likelihood of a star harboring a giant plane... ▽ More Correlations between stellar properties and the occurrence rate of exoplanets can be used to inform the target selection of future planet search efforts and provide valuable clues about the planet formation process.
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Abstract: Correlations between stellar properties and the occurrence rate of exoplanets can be used to inform the target selection of future planet search efforts and provide valuable clues about the planet formation process.
However, instead of digging into the soil, they look for clues about our planet's climate history by studying coral reefs, digging into ocean and lake floor sediment and drilling deeply into glaciers and ice sheets.
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Tommy Smyth is the largest walking turd on the planet, with absolutely no clue about anything.
«But it also gives us a clue about what signatures of other planets might look like, especially if they are capable of supporting life as we know it.»
«Understanding the mixing and transport processes that occur around Sun - like stars could give us clues about which of their surrounding planets might have conditions similar to our own.»
Launched late last year, COROT is collecting information about distant planets as well as measuring cosmic stellar vibrations, which provide clues to the interiors of distant stars.
Astrobiologist Chris McKay travels to the world's harshest landscapes to search for clues about the potential for life on other planets.
Recent studies of our planet's churning interior are offering intriguing clues about how the next reversal may begin
Each NASA rover has delivered a wealth of information about the history and composition of the Red Planet, but a rover's vision is limited by the view of onboard cameras, and images from spacecraft orbiting Mars are the only other clues to where to drive it.
The new data also give scientists clues to a long - standing mystery about the atmospheres of giant outer planets.
While scientists find ever more planets around other stars and contemplate missions to probe the far reaches of our own solar system, researchers are looking to the extremes of the Earth for clues about what kind of organisms could exist in the brutal conditions elsewhere.
And while Curiosity's mission does not include life detection, the rover is expected to unearth clues about the habitability of the environments on the Red Planet, said John Grotzinger, MSL project scientist at JPL.
Discovering details about far - flung planets across the universe gives us more clues as to how planets in our own solar system formed.
The presence of a stratosphere can provide clues about the composition of a planet and how it formed.
As the planet faces the dawn of a sixth mass extinction, scientists are searching for clues about the uncertain road ahead by exploring how ancient ecosystems collapsed and bounced back from traumatic upheavals.
For planetary scientists like Jackson, being able to observe objects like these may yield important clues about how planet formation works in other star systems.
This color information is displayed in plots, called spectra, which reveal chemical clues about whether a planet could sustain life.
Even if there is no hope for life there, and little chance that humans will step on its sizzling surface, Venus is still a fascinating world whose geology may offer clues about why two similar planets developed in startlingly different ways.
Measurements of the gas around the stars also provide additional clues about the properties of those planets.
A soil sample from an asteroid can give us clues about the raw materials that made up planets and asteroids in their formative years, and about the state of the inside of a solar nebula around the time of the birth of the planets.
Meteorites as a whole are still important clues about what processes occurred during the formation of the solar system, but which ones are the best analogs for what the planets were made out of would change.»
The discovery of evidence for ancient sea - floor hydrothermal deposits on Mars identifies an area on the planet that may offer clues about the origin of life on Earth.
MOST was actually designed to study vibrations of stars for stellar seismology, but more recently we pointed it at stars that have mysterious exo - planets (extra-solar planets) around them, and it is giving us clues about the atmospheres of these planets that no one else can obtain.
«The composition and chemistry of ice giant atmospheres provides clues about their formation, evolution and current state,» explained a research paper referenced as part of NASA's Outer Planets Assessment Group Meeting in Laurel, Maryland.
Researchers said that the type of wind - sculpted ripples on the Red Planet has not been seen on Earth and the link of the sand ripples to the thin Martian atmosphere seen today offers clues about the history of the planet's atmosPlanet has not been seen on Earth and the link of the sand ripples to the thin Martian atmosphere seen today offers clues about the history of the planet's atmosplanet's atmosphere.
Maven will orbit Mars, looking for clues about what happened to the planet's once - thick atmosphere.
He explores how finding DNA - based life on the Red Planet could offer clues about our distant evolutionary past, and grapples with the profound moral and ethical questions confronting us as we prepare to introduce an unpredictable new life form — ourselves — into the Martian biosphere.
While searching for clues about his father, and the home planet he's never known, Gardner begins an online friendship with a street - smart girl named Tulsa.
While searching for clues about his father, and the home planet he's never known, Gardner begins an online friendship with a street smart girl in Colorado named Tulsa.
Moreover, it also seems to reveal a clue about the game finally leaving the planet Pandora.
Scientists are in the early stages of building a fiber optic network on the seafloor for observing, in real time, deep - sea hydrothermal vents — places where super-heated water and minerals spew from Earth's crust offering clues about how life on the planet may have began.
The obvious conclusion is that if we are significantly changing how the planet atmosphere absorbs radiation and we don't have a clue about the effects, then we should be very afraid.
A British engineering team went to Antarctica this October for the first stage of a scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from a lake buried beneath three kilometres of solid ice, and attempt to uncover clues about the evolution of life on Earth and other planets, and about the Earth's past climate.
This diversity raises questions about how photosynthesis developed on Earth, and provides clues as to what might dominate over a planet's history and yield alternative «biosignatures» on a planet orbiting a different kind of star from our Sun.