Sentences with phrase «from near the planet»

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The powerful Titan IV rocket lifted off near dawn in October 1997, went behind a cloud from our vantage point and then thankfully emerged serenely on its way to Saturn, reaching the planet on July 1 2004.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

INEOS Bio (which is the biofuel arm of petrochemical giant INEOS) and developer New Planet Energy say they will use the loan guarantee to build the «INEOS BioEnergy Center,» near Vero Beach, Florida, that will produce 8 million gallons of advanced biofuels and 6 MW of biomass power from plant waste and trash per year.

«It gives us some insight into the connection between the slow circulation of near - solid rock in Earth's mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat upwards from the planet's interior, and observed active plate tectonics at the surface.

The oceans near Antarctica that absorb carbon and protect our planet from climate change have been working robustly in the past decade, finds a new study published yesterday in Science.

Donald Yeomans, who calculates the orbits for near - Earth objects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says that comets flung out from that belt pummeled our planet shortly after its formation and could have left behind water, possibly creating the conditions that allowed Earth to become a cradle for life.

After decades of failed searches, astronomers from the Pale Red Dot project found a planet around our nearest star, Proxima Centauri.

NASA even managed to watch the comet from Mars — a test run for a remarkable event next Oct. 19, when Comet Siding Spring will have a near - collision with the Red Planet.

He and other astronomers say the spinning binary, just 1.8 AU apart, could create «gravitational chaos» near the hypothesized planet, perhaps flinging it from the system.

TESS will mostly search for planets elsewhere in the sky away from Proxima Centauri, near the ecliptic poles, regions directly above and below our solar system that are easy to continuously monitor with most space telescopes.

An avalanche of data released from NASA's New Horizons probe, which flew past Pluto on 14 July, show the dwarf planet has a pair of potentially volcanic mountains near its south pole.

If the planet is only one Earth mass, Jenkins says, any life there might be near its end; the world would be on the verge of a runaway greenhouse effect, with gravity too weak to prevent its life - giving water from boiling off into space due to rising surface temperatures.

From windswept deserts to the ocean near Key Largo, some parts of our planet are surprisingly similar to other worlds.

The technique can reveal planets orbiting the nearer star if it is up to 20,000 light years from Earth, much farther than other techniques.

They are eventually eliminated by orbital decay and accretion by the Sun, collisions with the inner planets, or by being ejected from the solar system by near misses with the planets.

For anyone experiencing a truly dark summer sky for the first time, one of the most impressive sights is the light of the Milky Way, the edge - on view of our galaxy from our planet's position near its fringe.

However it affects the planet, the comet should give scientists their closest view yet of a near - pristine visitor from the outer edges of our solar system.

Researchers generally think that the zonal winds arise from convection, the tendency of hotter gases to rise and cooler gases to fall, he says, although they don't agree whether the convection that produces the stripes reaches to the planet's core or takes places only near the surface.

«By combining seven smaller telescopes to synthesize the accuracy of one large one,» says Michael Shao, the scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who heads the SIM team, «we're going to be able to search the nearest 40 or so stars to find planets that are from one to two times the mass of Earth and that are in a habitable zone around their stars.»

This collision or near - collision might have ejected one planet from the system entirely and pushed HD 20782 on its eccentric path.

Using Earth - based telescopes to study sunlight reflected from the planet, the team found concentrations as high as 45 parts per billion near three geological features at a specific time: summer in the northern hemisphere of Mars in the Earth year 2003.

In addition to time on the 100 - meter - wide Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the 64 - meter Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, the project will also use the 2.4 - meter Automated Planet Finder Telescope at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, California, to search for possible optical laser signals from another world.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

This is the inaugural meeting for TESS, which is a first of its kind: uniting the various research groups that study the sun - Earth connection from explosions on the sun to their effects near our home planet and all the way out to the edges of the solar system - a research field collectively known as heliophysics.

FAR OUT Mars may have formed near what's now the asteroid belt, much farther away from the sun than the other rocky planets.

Astronomers used to debate whether the worlds of our solar system arose from a massive sheet of gas ripped out of our young sun during a near encounter with a passing star; that extended filament then supposedly clumped into planets.

Professor Drijfhout said: «The planet earth recovers from the AMOC collapse in about 40 years when global warming continues at present - day rates, but near the eastern boundary of the North Atlantic (including the British Isles) it takes more than a century before temperature is back to normal.»

They spotted a sudden rise in particles zooming in from the far side of the planet, improving our understanding of how particles travel in near - Earth space.

At 8:52:37 p.m. Eastern time, a radio antenna near Madrid received the first signal from the spacecraft since it buzzed the dwarf planet.

Launched in May, Akatsuki was supposed to operate at least two years from a looping near - equatorial orbit that ranged from 300 to 80,000 km above the planet.

Saturn's outlier moon Phoebe didn't coalesce from material near the ringed planet but instead was captured from the distant Kuiper belt, a reservoir of frozen bodies beyond Pluto.

The debris field of very fine dust was likely created from collisions among developing infant planets near the star, evidenced by a bright ring of dusty debris seen 7 billion miles from the star.

Its predecessor spacecraft, Kepler, surveyed 150,000 stars in a patch of sky near the constellation Cygnus, and found over a thousand planets ranging from gaseous giants like Jupiter to rocky planets as small as Mercury.

During the relatively brief, combined giant phases of the two stars at present, however, a planet could orbit the Aab pair far enough out for the two stars to act as a single gravitational source and near enough for it to receive enough energy to sustain life, possibly around 12.5 AUs out from the binary.

As MGS skimmed the planet from pole to pole, it tracked changes in carbon dioxide ice deposits near the south pole of Mars.

Those bands were not seen again until 2011 when the the team observed the planet with Keck Observatory's NIRSPEC, a unique, near - infrared spectrograph that combines broad wavelength coverage with high spectral resolution, allowing the observers to clearly see subtle emissions from the bright parts of Saturn.

We observed in the near - infrared part of the spectrum using a PanStarrs - Z filter with Jupiter near the edge of the field in order to mitigate against the glare from the planet.

«Pan-STARRS has made discoveries from Near Earth Objects and Kuiper Belt Objects in the Solar System to lonely planets between the stars,» says Dr. Ken Chambers, Director of the Pan-STARRS Observatories.

Water Emissions - In September of 2002, a team of astronomers (including Cristiano Cosmovici of the Institute for Cosmic and Planetary Science) announced at the Second European Workshop on Exo / Astrobiology that they had detected water «maser» emissions from three of 17 star systems suspected of hosting planets, including Upsilon Andromedae, using the 32 - meter Medicina radio telescope near Bologna.

The orbital distance from Zeta Doradus where an Earth - type planet currently would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered near 1.2 AU — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

In 2009, computer simulations showed that a planet might have been able to form near the inner edge of Alpha Centauri B's habitable zone, which extends from 0.5 to 0.9 AU from the star.

Some planets are so near their star that they are losing mass too rapidly to have been planets for very long.14 Besides, their rocky cores would have melted before the planet's evolution could begin.15 Others are too far from their star and the dust near the star needed to grow a planet.

The orbital distance from Stars A and B where an Earth - type planet currently would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered near 1.8 AU — between the orbital distances of Mars and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System.

Many undisputed observations contradict current theories on how the solar system evolved.a One theory says that planets formed when a star, passing near our Sun, tore matter from the Sun.

The key now is to determine where this difference comes from and how it impacts planet formation near various types of stars.

Orion, the nearest stellar factory to our home planet, sits about 1,450 light - years from Earth.

As the planet warms from the buildup of greenhouse gases, there may be a change in the atmospheric circulations near the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

The effects of human activity have long been cited as a primary cause of global climate change, but new research from NASA has revealed that our use of technology also appears to be having an impact not just on the planet, but on Earth's near - space environment as well.

Models of planetary formation suggest that giant extrasolar planets detected very near their stars formed at greater distances and migrated inward as a result of gravitational interactions with remnants of the circumstellar disks from which they accumulated.

It may seem odd that we are able to detect thousands of exoplanets on systems hundreds of light years away, and yet we can not confirm the existence of planets in our nearest star, just four light years from us.