Sentences with phrase «for exploring the planet»

There is no lack of opportunities for exploring the planet's microbial diversity, Rubin said.

What brought the researchers to University Valley was a NASA ASTEP (astrobiology science and technology for exploring planets) project to test the IceBite auger, a permafrost drill designed to drill into Martian permafrost.

Not exact matches

The plutonium powered robot will explore the surface of the Red Planet for upwards of 10 years at a cost of $ 2.5 billion (# 1.5 billion).

Explore how Habitat Seven has helped our partners transform their information and data into digital products with broad, real - world impacts for a sustainable planet.

We have not yet explored the entire universe, and for all we know there could be a planet out there with alien life resembling unicorns.

Food writer Michael Pollan explores the origins of man's most basic culinary staples — grain, roasted meat, gathered vegetables — and advocates for cooking that preserves an integrity for the planet and a sense of joy in the body.

«Ocado is proud to support the Meat Free Monday campaign because we all need to take care of our planet and its precious resources, and we want to encourage our customers to explore as many options as possible for doing so.»

Like non-vegetarian students, vegetarian students will have the opportunity to explore the reasons why reducing one's meat consumption is good for the planet.

In this new original production, we'll explore what makes a planet «Earth - like» and take an immersive, full - dome tour of several worlds that just might fit the conditions we're looking for.

In his newest book, Mission to Mars, Buzz Aldrin outlines his vision for exploring the Red Planet.

Now, far beyond the eight planets and a billion miles beyond Pluto — the most distant object ever explored — this little prince of a planet is ready for its close - up.

He is also responsible for science missions that explore the planets (including Mars), Mars - analog sites on Earth, and astronomy missions.

Kingston University London experts will explore how an artificial vision system inspired by the human eye could be used by robots of the future — opening up new possibilities for securing footage from deep forests, war zones and even distant planets.

Enormous dust storms are a fact of life on Mars, and one big enough to blanket the planet occurs every five or six years, says John Callas of NASA, the project manager for Opportunity and its twin, Spirit (currently exploring the other side of Mars).

In this slim but absorbing introduction to the epic search for life on extrasolar planets, Sasselov explores how astronomy, geology, and biology are conspiring to give us a radical new vision of a universe in which our living Earth is «just another planet.»

After hunkering down for six weeks to ride out a planet - spanning dust storm, the Mars rover Opportunity got back to work in September and began a drive into Victoria Crater, the largest, deepest crater it has yet explored.

Other factions within planetary - science circles would prefer to send another mission to Titan — maybe even an airborne drone, a sailboat or a submarine — or to reach for farther frontiers by sending orbiters to Uranus and Neptune, the last two planets that remain scarcely explored.

On the other hand, Jupiter or Saturn missions, for instance, could use local manifolds to explore those planets» neighborhoods.

The Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion Program and the American Association for the Advancement of Science are pleased to have presented an event exploring new findings in the search for planets and life beyond Earth.

These effects and their implications for other planets have not really been explored.»

For a decade, Canadian physicist David Keith has led the effort to explore the controversial idea of geoengineering, the deliberate tinkering of the planet to curb the effects of climate change.

The social robots were more efficient and effective than single robots, Laurent Keller's team reports, suggesting that setting loose swarms of robots might be a robust and flexible strategy for exploring distant planets.

«This new ability to explore matter at atomic scale pressures, where extrapolations of earlier shock and static data become unreliable, provides new constraints for dense matter theories and planet evolution models,» said Rip Collins, another Lawrence Livermore physicist on the team.

Besides serving as eye candy for Mars enthusiasts, the detailed map will help mission planners select future landing sites where they can most efficiently explore the Red Planet's geological record.

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.

If further research confirms the model's accuracy, it could also open new avenues for exploring the origin of life on Earth, and for understanding the role hydrogen gas might play in supporting life in a wide range of extreme environments, from the sunless deep - sea floor to distant planets.

In the mid-1990s the U.S. embarked on a new strategy for exploring the Red Planet.

Once the U.S. regains its ability to send humans into deep space, there's more than one nearby planet for them to explore

He points out that Curiosity and other missions that touch down on the planet are only exploring a limited region for a limited time.

Suffering from mal de mer but otherwise exhilarated, I exit the capsule and explore not the sandy Red Planet but the ride queue area nearby, which snakes under an original Apollo - era lunar rover, designed by NASA for training purposes.

The universe is an unimaginably vast space filled with planets, stars, systems, nebulae, gas, dust — and it's impossible for us to ever explore it all.

When venturing to a new star system to explore the possibility of extraterrestrial life, trying a star that has already shown itself to nurture planets — even if they're not the kind you're looking for — could be a promising strategy.

By exploring the habitable planets around the stars closest to the Sun Project EDEN aims the search for life in the solar neighborhood and leads to the discovery of planets that are close enough to be studied in details.

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

ISRU stands for «in - situ resource utilization» — a concept that, to feasibly explore and colonize other planets, we must be able to manufacture or harvest important materials (water, oxygen, food) from other planets, rather than shipping everything from Earth.

Exploring and colonizing the Red Planet would mean enduring extremes of heat and cold, ferocious sandstorms and an atmosphere that's too thin for them to breathe unassisted.

When rovers exploring other planets seek out chemical signatures associated with life forms, they're only able to identify chemicals that we know to look for.

As the Academies notes in their recent decadal survey,» [t] he search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting subjects in all of astronomy...» The report went on to recommend «a program to explore the diversity and properties of planetary systems around other stars, and to prepare for the long - term goal of discovering and investigating nearby, habitable planets.»

Dr. Jim Green, Director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, will address the U.S. agency's current and future plans for international cooperation and partnership on exploring the planet Mars at the 19th Annual International Mars Society Convention, scheduled for September 22 - 25 at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Green began... Read More

-- to explore the Solar System beyond Mars to understand how giant planets and their moons form and evolve, to search for habitable environments on and within moons (like Enceladus, Europa and Titan), and to examine the farthest bodies in the solar system for clues to the early history of the solar system.

We explore these mechanisms for cases of both magnetized and unmagnetized planets, in order to characterize the potential influence on the rotational history of the star, as well as the planetary orbital migration.

That worked reasonably well, but (luckily for us) there were too many cool planets to explore that just didn't fit that specific description.

Jeffrey Kiehl, PhD, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, in Boulder, points to volumes of studies exploring responses of extreme storms to a warming planet and concludes that «these systems that form in the tropics can propagate up to the polar regions.»

The Mars Society, the world's largest space advocacy group dedicated to the human exploration and settlement of the planet Mars, seeks to educate and inform the public, the media and the government about the importance of exploring Mars and the need to create a second home for humanity on the Red Pplanet Mars, seeks to educate and inform the public, the media and the government about the importance of exploring Mars and the need to create a second home for humanity on the Red PlanetPlanet.

Explore Mars wants to look for life on the Red Planet.

The University of Exeter said today (May 15, 2017) that its researchers have taken their first, tentative steps to explore the potential climate of the nearest known exoplanet, Proxima b. We've known about this planet for less than a year, since August, 2016..

After revealing his origins in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and exploring his struggle to keep the peace in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the Apes franchise returns this summer with War for the Planet of the Apes, which finds Caesar fighting for the survival of his species against a group of humans led by Woody Harrelson's Colonel.

You investigate a distress call and soon find yourself alone on a hostile planet trying to unravel the mysterious of the planet while exploring every nook and cranny for secrets, and boy are

Exploring Map Mode is also fun, traveling to trippy planets for new beats and enemies.

They have crafted a massive galaxy of planets for players to explore.