Sentences with phrase «for habitable environments»

-- 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.

Liquid water is essential for life as we know it, and understanding the distribution and behavior of liquid water beyond Earth can help scientists understand where to search for habitable environments, both within our Solar System and beyond.

«There was a huge potential for a habitable environment here, and there's a lot of promise for [microscopic] fossils, perhaps, or some biological signals,» Chris Okubo, an astrogeologist at USGS and an author of the new maps, told Business Insider.

Not exact matches

One possible strategy for making Mars habitable over the long term is to «terraform» it — manipulate its environment so, in the simplest terms, the planet warms up, ice turns into water, and plants can be introduced, which will convert the atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen, with the goal of creating a stable and breathable atmosphere.

No Heaven, no pergatory, no limbo, no hell... just each waking day on this planet that you should be greatful and helping your fellow man / woman survive and and improve their environment, while looking for a way off of this rock and to another habitable one; before planet Earth is hit by huge asteroids, swallowed by an expanding sun or rendered inhabitable by our own foolish actions.

The potential for such activity in this small ocean world has made Enceladus a prime target for future exploration in search of habitable environments in the solar system beyond Earth.

Whereas most people have a basic understanding of the human body (and hence appreciate the need for hygiene, a healthy diet, and exercise), Philander is distressed that most «people have no idea why the earth is habitable and see no connection between the way they live and the state of the environment.»

«If we survey a large number of planets with less detailed measurements, we can still get a statistical sense for how prevalent habitable environments are in our galaxy.

Predicting our climate change future, and particularly impacts on the natural systems responsible for making this planet a habitable environment for mankind, is clearly one of the most challenging problems of our time.

Knowing that the clays could be produced later in locations with surface water can help researchers pin down the best areas at which to look for once habitable environments, he says.

«We should be looking for habitats and not habitable environments.

Since Viking, though, NASA has mostly played it safe, scouring Mars's surface not for the chemical signatures of life but for ancient habitable environments — the goal of the Curiosity rover.

Many researchers are content to follow NASA's lead as it cautiously moves from «following the water» in search of likely habitable or once - habitable environments on Mars to «following the carbon» — that is, looking for chemical traces of ancient life.

«The ingredients for life are plentiful, and we now know that habitable environments are plentiful,» said Associate Professor Lineweaver, from the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Research School of Earth Sciences.

Raman on Mars NASA will also develop the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) ultraviolet (UV) laser spectrometer.

With a mass and size approximately one - third that of the Sun, and an abundance of heavy elements less than 10 percent solar, Kapteyn's Star was, as most red dwarfs, historically seen as a poor candidate for hosting any planets and habitable environments.

[For the Record, 1:40 p.m. PST, April 3: An earlier version of this post incorrectly indicated that Enceladus would need complex organic molecules to be considered a potentially habitable environment.

So it is a good place to study analogous environments for when life originated, and in places that are habitable beyond Earth despite their hot, cold, salty, high pressure, acidic, alkaline, etc. nature.

Beegle is principal investigator for a laser instrument called SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals).

It just so happens that Enceladus and Titan are particularly interesting moons that could be habitable for extraterrestrial life, so it would be unfortunate if our bacteria invaded these environments.

«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.

Regarding the search for extraterrestrial life, the one major habitable zone in the inner solar system that has not been sampled at all is the Venusian cloud layer, which in terms of temperature, pressure and gravity is the most Earthlike extraterrestrial environment in the solar system.

The Great Courses has partnered with the Smithsonian to produce a vivid exploration of life in this fascinating space — the environment that accounts for 99 percent of Earth's habitable space.