Sentences with phrase «evolution of the planet»

With our technology we have become so powerful that the geological evolution of the planet now lies in our hands more than those of the forces of nature.

This resulted in frequent collisions, which not only played a role in the formation and evolution of planets like Earth and Mars, but also helped shape their potential to host life.

All the ecosystems now bear the mark of human presence, but the scale and speed of change in the last 60 years, called by scientists The Great Acceleration, also led them to name anthropocene this new geological epoch — an era marked by the strong impact of human activities upon the atmospherical and geological evolution of planet earth.

«The earthquake which struck the East Coast today is a reminder of the continuing evolution of this planet, this fragile Earth, our island home,» said the Episcopal Church's head, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori.

«Ultraviolet radiation is an important factor in the atmospheric evolution of planets,» explains Bourrier.

Being able to compare the internal structure of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars (the four inner planets) is crucial to our understanding of how the Solar System formed and the subsequent evolution of the planets.

These findings, and the reasons behind, bear critical information about the surface and interior evolution of our planet,» explains Shephard.

The fact that some planetary orbits can be neatly aligned with the plane of their star's equator, whereas others are wildly misaligned, shows that we have much still to learn about the formation and orbital evolution of planets.»

I will discuss the range of magma ocean planets that may be in our current exoplanet sample and some of the implications for atmospheric composition and long - term evolution of these planets.

We have explored how the incorporation of different mechanisms for the degassing and regassing of water changes the volatile evolution of a planet.

That cluster is also devoid of the heavy chemical elements thought necessary to evolve a planet.8 At least 30 separate planets each orbit a pair of suns whose constantly changing positions would disrupt any slow evolution of a planet.9 One planet has been repeatedly observed eclipsing each of the eccentric binary stars it orbits.

Tidal evolution of planets around brown dwarfs Emeline Bolmont 2013 December 10, 13:30 IA / U.

That said, we hope that our list is a reflection of the important role the skill and imagination of artists has played, and continues to play, in interpreting the dizzyingly swift evolution of our planet over the last 25 years.

The radical distinctiveness of the Anthropocene lies in the fact that humans have become a novel «force of nature», one that is shaping the geological evolution of the planet.

The evolution of these planets may have been dramatically influenced by this separation.»

«Our results indicate that atmospheric escape may play an important role in the evolution of these planets,» summarises Julien de Wit, from MIT, USA, co-author of the study.

«The most significant aspect of the data is that it is going to allow us to reconstruct the evolution of the planet,» says MOLA team member Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

They contain stratigraphic cycles and patterns that precisely reveal the succession of climatic and tectonic conditions that have occurred over millennia, thereby enhancing our ability to understand and predict the evolution of our planet.

... To us scientists, the real significance of this work is that it helps us understand the evolution of our planet, how faults and mountain belts form, and why earthquakes happen.

The research also clarifies the evolution of our planet — and of life itself — during the «iron - rich» era 2.5 billion years ago.

«This is a major finding that helps us understand the evolution of planets like our own.»

«Magnetic fields provide crucial information about the interiors and evolution of planets, so it is gratifying that our experiments can test — and in fact, support — the thin - dynamo idea that had been proposed for explaining the truly strange magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune,» said Raymond Jeanloz, co-author on the paper and professor in Earth & Planetary Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.

One planet has been found in a tight cluster of tens of thousands of stars that would disrupt the evolution of any planet.

The goal of this module is to provide the basic knowledge on two funfamental branches of Modern Astrophysics: structure and evolution of stars and structure and evolution of planets and planetary systems.

Today, experts agree; no theory for the evolution of planets works.3

All meteorites originating from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter hold secrets that could unlock the mysteries of our solar system and birth and evolution of planets.

Starting from Year 3 we will also release increasing complete versions of our Genesis Database, a giant catalog of simulated exoplanetary systems in which the composition and evolution of the planets is recorded, in addition to the physical parameters of the planets.

Findings from the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instruments suggest that loss of a fraction of the atmosphere, resulting from a physical process favoring retention of heavier isotopes of certain elements, has been a significant factor in the evolution of the planet.

Then, get a non-technical description of modern astronomy, including the structure and evolution of planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole with Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition.

We actually derive much of our knowledge about asteroids and the evolution of planets from the study of meteorites.

It is the next stage in the evolution of this planet — in the words of one great thinker, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ``

It is the next stage in the evolution of this planet — in the words of one great thinker, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin «the planetization of mankind».

Yet, having said that, Dyson can go on to finish with: «The humanist ethic accepts our responsibility to guide the evolution of the planet.»

We have made ourselves into beings that aspire to the role of the gods, playing with forces we should leave alone, the great forces that govern the evolution of the planet.