Sentences with phrase «for signs of past life»

Today, all around the country, scientists like you are developing therapies to regenerate damaged organs, creating new devices to enable brain - controlled prosthetic limbs, and sending sophisticated robots into space to search for signs of past life on Mars.

A deposit of impact glass on Mars could be a good place to look for signs of past life on that planet.

NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which will look for signs of past life on Mars, will use smart methods originally developed to find the oldest life on Earth, according the mission's Deputy Project Scientist, Dr Ken Williford.

Not exact matches

In the past, we would have seen this as a desperate cry for help, a sign of depression, a sign that the person needs help not to die but to live better.

He has since given many signs of his support for the present pope; when many of his episcopal brethren were doing everything they could to undermine the motu proprio establishing the right to celebrate the «old Mass», he made clear his belief that the rite of John XXIII «is not a relic, not a reverting to the past, but part of the living tradition of the Church».»

Despite showing signs of life and being the only Cleveland starting quarterback to post a positive touchdown - to - interception ratio the past two seasons, he was shipped to the Jaguars in exchange for a conditional seventh - rounder.

The aim of Beagle 2's mission was to look for signs of past or present life on Mars and to see how its mountains and rocks were formed.

Both scenarios offer hopes that beneath Ceres's barren surface there may be regions warm, wet and accessible enough to investigate for signs of past or even present extraterrestrial life.

To search for signs of alien life, we may have to look into Earth's past.

Those photographs could help to select sites for landers that would search for signs of life, past or present.

The next NASA mission planning to use an MMRTG is the Mars 2020 rover, due to be launched as part of NASA's Journey to Mars, to seek signs of past life on the Red Planet, test technology for human exploration, and gather samples of rocks and soil that could be returned to Earth in the future.

The craft is designed to dig into the cementlike layer of ice that researchers believe lies buried a few inches below the surface in the planet's polar regions, scanning for signs of past liquid water and organic compounds, the carbon - rich molecules that make life on Earth possible.

«Follow the water» has been NASA's mantra as it has explored Mars for signs of present or past life.

Goordial, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University has spent the past four years looking for signs of active microbial life in permafrost soil taken from one of the coldest, oldest and driest places on Earth: in University Valley, located in the high elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, where extremely cold and dry conditions have persisted for over 150,000 years.

It will also study solid and gaseous samples for other chemical signs of past or present life, such as a very high abundance ratio of methane to heavier hydrocarbons (ethane, propane, butane) and chirality (a preference for either left - handed or right - handed organic molecules).

And the robotic exploration program is already providing a big bang for NASA's buck, discovering hidden water on the moon, possible signs of life on Mars, and tropical storms on Titan just in the past year.

However, it will have a number of improvements and instruments to carry out its search for signs of past microbial life on the Red Planet.

Prone to heavy boozing and intimidation of local riffraff, Holliday also appreciates the finer things in life, like sipping champagne and reciting Shakespearean soliloquies from memory, signs of a more - cultured past back East that he mysteriously abandoned for the anonymity of the West.

(Calif.) From life - saving techniques to the contributions of Chinese immigrants in building the railroad, K - 12 curriculum in California schools is set for a new wave of updates and additions under legislation signed over the past week by the governor.

The CAW negotiated a three - year agreement with Ford that guarantees 3 % annual wage hikes, an improved cost of living allowance that will add roughly another 1.5 % a year, a $ 1,000 signing bonus and gains in pensions for past and future retirees.

Founder Tom Waters, himself a best - selling author who has conducted a number of ebook signings, specifically for U.S. soldiers stationed in the Middle East as part of several USO tours, recently attended thriller the BoucherCon Mystery Writing Conference in St. Louis this past weekend in order to host an on - site live ebook signing.

Filing for bankruptcy or a consumer proposal is not a sign of weakness — it is the recognition that you finally want to stop paying for the past and start living for the future.

While the model of Fiat no longer continued being produced for a Western audience past the early «80s, the car continued to be manufactured in Poland — becoming a symbol, indeed a sign, of daily life in the Communist Bloc.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

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