Sentences with phrase «comparative planetology»

Alexander Basilevsky, chief of the laboratory of comparative planetology at the Vernadsky Institute near Moscow told a NASA meeting in September that two Soviet Venera landers could not return pictures from Venus because the camera covers could not be removed.

«This new discovery opens a new chapter in comparative planetology in the outer solar system,» said team leader Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado.

As technology improves and our observations of exoplanets become more and more detailed, GISS is positioned to play a key role in comparative planetology beyond the Solar System.

«Thinking from the standpoint of comparative planetology, if we can now study plate tectonics in this very different place, it might be able to help us understand how plate tectonics got started on the Earth.»

As pictures and chemical readings start streaming in, Bell and other mission scientists will begin their comparative planetology.

The number of planets in the system will also enable new research in the field of comparative planetology, which uncovers fundamental planetary processes by comparing different worlds.

In this paper, we review the scientific aspects of planetary space weather at different regions of our Solar System, performing a comparative planetology analysis that includes a direct reference to the circum - terrestrial case.