Sentences with phrase «find habitable»
Macross Frontier is the story of a human space colony fleet trying to find a habitable planet near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, all while they are being hunted by an alien, bio-mechanical, insectoid race known as the «Vajra.»
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I just have to stop taking pictures of it long enough to find a habitable base and claim the world as my own...
With that said, although you are so far away from the Milky Way, the story is quite similar in that there are hostile groups of aliens, called the Kett, and it's your job, although not initially, to find a habitable place for everyone to stay.
As summarized by geoscientist James Kasting in his 2010 book «How to Find a Habitable Planet»,» [h] abitable zones around Sun - like (F, G, and Early K) stars should be relatively wide because of the natural feedback between atmospheric CO2 [carbon dioxide] levels and climate — the same feedback loop that kept the Earth habitable early its history.
Of course, next generation telescopes may be able to find habitable worlds through simpler means: by looking at planets.
NYU Abu Dhabi scientists also just announced a game - changing discovery in the quest to find habitable planets that could transform the future of space exploration.
NASA has yet to find a habitable exoplanet, a planet where humans could live outside the solar system, but it has dedicated space telescopes probing the universe looking for suitable worlds.
In other words, it will be a world that we might find habitable.
M dwarfs feature prominently partly because it's easier to find habitable planets around these stars.
One molecular anthropologist is revisiting the past, while an astronomer has his eyes pointed skyward, to find habitable worlds outside the solar system.
The discovery boosts the odds of finding habitable planets in our galaxy.
«That bodes well for finding habitable planets,» he says.
The research will help astronomers determine which planets discovered with NASA's Kepler telescope — which has a primary mission of finding habitable planets similar to Earth — are actually more analogous to Earth's similarly - sized sister planet.
«This discovery could be a significant piece in the puzzle of finding habitable environments, places that are conducive to life,» said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
«This discovery could be a significant piece in the puzzle of finding habitable environments, places that are conducive to life,» Zurbuchen stated during the news conference.
And that's a step closer to finding a habitable environment beyond the solar system.
«Really, the big thing in this package of six papers is that we've accomplished the mission goal of finding a habitable environment,» Caltech's John Grotzinger, the principal investigator for Curiosity's $ 2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, told NBC News.
Finding Habitable Planets February 23, 2011 NASA's Kepler mission, launched in March of 2009 to search for extrasolar planets, has found a system with five Earth ‑ like planets in the habitable zone, where liquid water may exist.
Not exact matches
The six - wheeled rover quickly delivered, finding that an area near its landing site called Yellowknife Bay was indeed habitable billions of years ago.
NASA: Three planets found are some of best candidates so far for habitable worlds outside our solar system.
Most of the highly successful, civilized countries of this world were founded by Christians or are now civilized and habitable due to Christians.
Breaking News NASA: Three planets found are some of best candidates so far for habitable worlds outside our solar system.
The findings add to the growing picture that Mars was once habitable — a fact first settled by Curiosity in March.
Even so, the quest for finding truly habitable — maybe even inhabited — planets beyond the solar system may require more ambitious, next - generation observatories.
A civilization in the habitable zone of a dwarf star like Proxima Centauri might find it hard to get into interstellar space with conventional rockets
But this new study buttresses recent findings by another Los Alamos scientist who found boron on Mars for the first time, which also indicates the potential for long - term habitable groundwater in the planet's past.
Water is likely similarly abundant around other planets, raising the odds of finding life as we know it, or at least habitable conditions, somewhere else.
He is also part of a NASA team that will soon be using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to find Earth - like planets orbiting in or near the habitable zone of their stars.
«The habitable zone of Enceladus remains the most well studied, well understood and accessible of all the destinations for finding life or studying precursor chemistry,» she says.
The answers will not only help explain how Earth became an ideal place for incubating life; they will also tell a lot about the odds of finding similar habitable planets around other stars.
So we don't have long to wait before we find out possibly whether these things are actually habitable.
After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth and well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.
Many more planets are expected to be found in habitable zones around M dwarfs.
How will we find out if any of those planets are habitable or, more exciting, if they actually have life?
«We'll find an Earth - mass planet by 2010,» Laughlin predicts, «and an Earth - mass planet that's potentially habitable by 2012.»
But even if a habitable Earth - like world is found first from the ground, it will most likely take a space observatory to search for the chemical signals that tell us what we really want to know: Is anything living out there?
Astronomers find an exoplanet that could be habitable — and it's as close to us as it could possibly be
The HOSTS Survey has determined that the typical level of zodiacal dust around other stars — called «exo - zodiacal dust» — is less than 15 times the amount found in our own solar system's habitable zone.
«It's optimized to find rocks in habitable zones.»
But Froese points to several other fragments of data from the region that suggest the corridor was habitable earlier: a 13,700 - year - old fragment of a poplar tree and a 13,100 - year - old bison found near the bottleneck.
The find may bolster the search for extraterrestrial life, since the magnetic fields that drive auroras likely keep planets habitable.
«We are already extremely lucky to find a planet bang in the middle of the habitable zone of our nearest neighbour,» he says.
«We thought perhaps that our hopes of finding small, rocky habitable worlds orbiting sunlike stars were dashed,» Jenkins recalls.
«But we looked at Vega's habitable zone and we didn't find anything.»
Previous studies of Gliese 667C had found that the star hosts three planets with one of them in the habitable zone.
«The number of potentially habitable planets in our galaxy is much greater if we can expect to find several of them around each low - mass star — instead of looking at ten stars to look for a single potentially habitable planet, we now know we can look at just one star and find several of them,» adds co-author Rory Barnes (University of Washington, USA).
That would be a depressing end to the story of habitable zones, if not for a series of amazing findings that life on Earth is not what everyone thought it was.
They found that one possibly habitable planet, Kepler - 186f, might orbit outside its star's astrosphere, which is smaller than the one puffed out by our sun.
«We found that heat transported by oceans would have a major impact on the temperature distribution across a planet, and would potentially allow a greater area of a planet to be habitable.
The only way to find out if the moon is still habitable is to go back on a future mission, he says.