Sentences with phrase «for planetary scientist»

Intrigued, Schneider took a summer job as a computer programmer for planetary scientist S. I. Rasool, who asked him to model both grim scenarios.

«This is terra incognita for planetary scientists,» says Leigh Fletcher, a planetary scientist at the University of Leicester in England.

But for planetary scientists, Jupiter's most distinctive mystery may be what's called the «energy crisis» of its upper atmosphere: how do temperatures average about as warm as Earth's even though the enormous planet is more than fives times further away from the sun?

Such perceptual biases (technically known as pareidolia) can be misleading, but for planetary scientists they are also quite useful.

Getting a two - for - one tour of the solar system's largest asteroids is a dream come true for planetary scientists, Rayman in particular.

Not so much for planetary scientists.

Jim Green, the head of NASA's Planetary Science Division, shook things up for planetary scientists this week by announcing a restructuring that will change how the division funds grant proposals.

That language is reassuring for planetary scientists, who have been worried that tight spending caps will force the agency to end one or more of six operating missions that still have life in them.

For planetary scientists like Jackson, being able to observe objects like these may yield important clues about how planet formation works in other star systems.

These properties make the Dry Valleys so unusual that they more closely resemble Mars than they do most of Earth, and therefore make a great research station for planetary scientists who can't yet buy a ticket to Mars.

The glory is a sensitive marker for conditions in the Venusian clouds, which, made of sulphuric acid and completely enveloping the planet, have long held a special fascination for planetary scientists.

Mauna Kea, HI — California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers using data gathered at the W. M. Keck Observatory have developed a new technique for planetary scientists that could provide insight into how many water planets like Earth exist within our universe.

Another important aspect is that ALMA is designed not only for astronomers but also for planetary scientists, physicists and other scientists whose studies are associated with astronomy.

Discovering more of them near Earth would be an exciting find for planetary scientists.

Not exact matches

Roger Clark, who is a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and co-investigator for one of the mission's instruments, explains why:

«This will not be the only flyover of Great Red Spot planned for Juno's [orbits], but it is the closest [Great Red Spot] flyover in the plans,» Candice Hansen, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, told Business Insider in an email.

Candice Hansen, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, told Business Insider in an email that «this will not be the only flyover of the Great Red Spot planned» for Juno's orbits, «but it is the closest.»

Chris Lewicki, a former NASA scientist and currently the president and chief engineer of Planetary Resources, chats with Cambridge House Live's Bridgitte Anderson about opportunities for mining in outer space.

Scientists buoy our longing for clarity by enumerating laws and speaking of atoms and electrons, but, laments Camus even they are reduced to using the «poetry» of planetary systems, i.e., they Can not rationally seize the reality they study.

Before the International Astronomical Union announced the names April 11, scientists referred to Charon's features with nicknames like «brown mountain» or «yellow mountain,» says Rita Schulz, a planetary scientist who heads the union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomeplanetary scientist who heads the union's Working Group for Planetary System NomePlanetary System Nomenclature.

Previous studies have suggested that electric fields generated during the early stages of a sandstorm would have that effect, but nobody had made field measurements to support the idea, says Francesca Esposito, a planetary scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Naples, Italy.

Some US planetary scientists are concerned that NASA's inability to provide a rocket for the 2016 ExoMars launch is a sign of a bigger problem.

While there are no formal plans for a NASA mission to Europa yet, it's a top priority for many researchers working for the organization, says planetary scientist Bob Pappalardo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Pappalardo has also introduced a proposal that would send planetary scientists to Beauchamp's spring to develop strategies and test equipment for a Europa mission.

Horst Uwe Keller, a planetary scientist at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany, and the former principal investigator for the Rosetta camera, says that it is too early to say whether the dinosaur eggs are truly fundamental building blocks.

Climate scientist Jon Foley of the University of Minnesota, who is part of a team of researchers that defined safe limits for 10 planetary systems, including climate, argues for erring on the side of caution.

For those who prefer a more macho approach, planetary scientist Steven Chesley of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has proposed a companion mission called ISIS.

A new mission would likely head for Encke, a comet described as «evolved, degassed, used - up, and as old as possible» by Contour mission leader Joseph Veverka, a planetary scientist at Cornell University.

Scientists think a dynamo — a rotating, convecting, electrically conducting fluid in a planet's outer core — is the mechanism for generating the planetary magnetic fields.

If his plan is approved, the site would provide planetary scientists with a working model of what to look for on the moon's surface.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — Planetary scientists who dream of probing for microbes on Jupiter's icy moon Europa are already studying similar settings on Earth.

Such refuges may be the first place to look for life on Europa, says planetary scientist Richard Greenberg of the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Squyres, a planetary scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, is also the lead investigator for NASA's long - lived Opportunity Mars rover (although he says he plans to step down from that role if CAESAR is selected for flight).

The planetary scientists weren't hoping to fill their coffers with the revenue from the sale; instead, they offered free sweets in return for signatures on letters beseeching Congress to reverse the cuts.

A postdoc at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona and an associate research scientist with the Planetary Science Institute, Richmond is frustrated by her struggle for stability.

The menagerie of exoplanets has provided new natural laboratories for scientists to test out models of planetary formation and evolution.

«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.

Scientists propose a list of planetary boundaries for human impacts ranging from biodiversity loss to the global nitrogen cycle

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

He worries that younger planetary scientists are starting to look for other opportunities, undermining the prospects of future missions.

That makes now the best time for scientists, legal experts and the public to start thinking about when and how we might relax planetary protection protocols if we decide another planet is lifeless, he says.

«We're going to see beneath the cloud tops for the very first time,» says Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and head of the Juno mission.

It serves as the model for collaboration among disciplines and nations in planetary science, with its instrument teams featuring balanced rosters of U.S. and European scientists.

Taken together, the two results make a compelling case for young rings, says Larry Esposito, a planetary scientist also at CU Boulder who has long believed the rings to be old.

Still, the hunt for nonterran life could be accomplished with a tool familiar in any biology lab, scientists suggested here yesterday at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference and in a paper in press at Astrobiology.

By showing the value of recording those motions, ROMY could pave the way for miniature sensors that could help oil and gas prospectors and even planetary scientists who want to listen for tremors on the moon and Mars.

Other scientists have criticized the planetary boundaries as too generous (for example, allowing too much human appropriation of freshwater flows) or employing the wrong metric (atmospheric concentrations of CO2 rather than cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases).

Planetary scientist Kevin Hand at JPL, who is leading the science definition team for the proposed Europa lander, feels a debt to Cassini.

Planetary scientists have seen a lot of evidence for frozen water at the Martian poles, and water vapour in the planet's atmosphere.

One bid for preservation initiated in 2009 by 29 scientists from around the world focused on the concept of planetary boundaries.