Sentences with phrase «do planetary science»
«Few of us actually do planetary science,» Hummels says of his departmental colleagues, but NASA encourages its ambassadors to tackle subjects that are grounded in things the public can easily visualize.
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Not only do scientists need to find a place on Europa's surface that will be worth studying, they also need to find a place to land that won't completely destroy the lander upon touch down, Jim Green, NASA's Director of Planetary Science, told Business Insider.
Also, with the outreach work that I do for as an ambassador for NASA / JPL, I wanted to be able to have more technical activities for disadvantaged children centered around coding, space technology, and planetary science.
This keeps open the possibility that the meteorite does indeed contain fossils (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, DOI: 10.1016 / j.epsl.2009.06.039).
How do polar research and exploration support astrobiology and planetary science?
«But Comet ISON was found when it was far from the sun, six times Earth's distance, so we've had a lot of time to do observational planning,» says Jian - Yang Li of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz..
Astrophysicist Fred Espenak of the Goddard Space Flight Center speaks for many of his colleagues: «With the current state of technology, planetary science can be done much more inexpensively with robot missions than with manned ones.»
How did risk factor into your selection of Psyche and Lucy, two missions to asteroids, as the next Discovery missions in planetary science?
But according to a second model presented at the LPSC by David O'Brien of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, Ceres doesn't have enough muscle to drive these eruptions.
«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.
«We didn't believe the measurements at first, and spent about a year just convincing ourselves that they were accurate,» said lead author Laurence Yeung, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Rice University.
«But we didn't want to fly to Jupiter without a camera,» says Hansen, of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz..
Ultimately, Weiler feels that he did not neglect planetary science — in fact, he was one of the Mars programme's biggest defenders.
«The result is not a surprise, but if you look at the global climate models that have been used to analyze what the planet looked like 20,000 years ago — the same models used to predict global warming in the future — they are doing, on average, a very good job reproducing how cold it was in Antarctica,» said first author Kurt Cuffey, a glaciologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of geography and of earth and planetary sciences.
«We didn't see microbes,» says Hunter Waite, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, and the lead author of a study published this week in Science.
And as usual, NASA's planetary science division, a favorite of key congressional appropriators, did best of all, with a 13.4 % boost to $ 1.63 billion.
In planetary science, Hyperion is a moon of Saturn — one, it seems, that does not live up to its lofty name.
Missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Cosmic Background Explorer are all answering some of the fundamental questions in astrophysics, cosmology and planetary science: how did the Solar System form?
Asteroid impacts did heat the subsurface, according to the simulations, but even the heaviest bombardment scenarios were not intense enough to sterilize the planet, the researchers report March 1 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
«We can not foresee how well we will be doing in the next tsunami,» said Okal, a seismologist and professor of Earth and planetary sciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
Shapiro stresses that it is unclear whether Congress will give further funds to planetary protection, noting that if it doesn't, there is a risk of the money being taken away from space science.
They were just trying to do their science as best they knew how before announcing a fascinating (at least to planetary geochemists) discovery that they've found a class of chemicals called perchlorates in the martian soil.
A landing on Europa is «not an easy thing to achieve, primarily because we don't really know what the surface is like on the meter and submeter scale,» says Ronald Greeley, an Arizona State University planetary geologist and co-chair of NASA's science definition team for the Europa mission.
Brown was so impressed with Schmidt's curiosity and independent streak that late in the semester he sat her down in his office and told her she was wasting her time if she didn't pursue planetary science.
Variations in texture seen in different portions of the fault surface may explain why Costa Rica has complex, patchy earthquakes that do not seem to slip to shallow depths, unlike some other megathrust faults, said first author Joel Edwards, a Ph.D. candidate in Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.
«Obviously, the cuts to Earth Science make this a hard bill to support, therefore the Planetary Society does not as written.
As the Society's Bahcall Fellow, Ashlee hopes to continue the excellent work her predecessors have done to keep members informed and engaged with the policy process at many levels and on the varied issues that impact our ability to effectively practice, educate, and communicate astronomical, planetary, and solar sciences.
Odyssey has done important planetary science and has served as a «call home» link for rovers on the Red Planet's surface.
Regarding Europa, he said he knows the planetary science community wants to launch that spacecraft in 2022, but «it can't be done in that time frame.»
«The history of planetary science shows us that we develop theories and models, and nature does not read our papers,» McKay said.
The work, done by Konstantin Batygin (MS» 10, PhD» 12), a Caltech assistant professor of planetary science and Van Nuys Page Scholar, is described in a paper appearing in the March 5 issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The Rencontres du Vietnam initiated in 2014 a cycle of yearly conferences on planetary science, alternatively focusing on exoplanets, Solar system, or exobiology.
Review of Theories of Moon - Forming Impact (Planetary Science Institute) Big Bang, New Moon (SwRI) Planetary climatic and dynamic factors that convert solid, airless bodies into worlds suitable for life (Dr. Darren Williams - Penn State) Do We Know What Killed the Dinosaurs?
«It's really, in planetary science, one of the great frontiers and it's not like this doesn't interact with Earth and us as humans,» Britt said of the Kuiper Belt.
While it is true that we can not (at present anyway) get «outside» our own planetary system to «observe from without» our situation, we can certainly «do science» in a manner analogous to sociologists who can not observe totally from the outside, either.
For those of us who waded through the quagmire of errors, false assertions and confused physics of M07, the above statement does not encourage serious examination of this paper, despite his suggestion that the present work is ``... a remarkable achievement of planetary science.»
The fact that eadler2 didn't make this point right away is proof that she is little more than a Skeptical Science parrot and not a very good one considering she didn't point to this canonical restraint on planetary surface temperatures.
After all, it's clear that there are many areas where our current understanding on maths and science don't measure up to reality, planetary orbits being one, gravity seems to have anomalies, and so on.
We are at the tail end of planetary warming and current science does not investigate physical changes.
«Contributing to combating climate change and respecting planetary boundaries in the way we do business is a priority for us,» said Marie - Claire Daveu, Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of International Institutional Affairs, Kering, «The Science Based Targets initiative is enabling the business community to set meaningful and measurable goals to ensure that we align with the 2 °C global agenda and Kering is proud that our own GHG reduction ambitions have been validated by the initiative.»
Didn't have the time at that moment to get trained in planetary atmosphere science.