We will explore STEM, and a diverse number of topics ranging
from planetary science to physical science, plus everything in between.
But much of the rest goes toward goals largely absent
from the planetary science community's consensus planning, namely the new push for lunar exploration.
«Since its early formulation, NASA has invited mission concept feedback and development ideas
from the planetary science community, general public, U.S. and global industry, and international partners,» said Gates.
An international research team, led by Dr. Yuji Harada
from Planetary Science institute, China University of Geosciences, has found that there is an extremely soft layer deep inside the Moon and that heat is effectively generated in the layer by the gravity of Earth.
Part of the love stems
from planetary science champions like Representative John Culberson (R - TX), who chairs the spending panel that oversees NASA.
She also scoffs at the attempt to decouple the earth sciences
from planetary sciences, a discipline Cruz and Culberson strongly favor.
Not exact matches
Goper reation according to the Divine Word of God Genesis 1
science in CAPS; FIRST CAUSE «In the beginning God» (v1)-- we are given the first cause, causation BIG BANG «created the heavens and the earth» (v1)-- matter and energy created, singularity establishing time and space «Earth dark formless mass «(v 2)-- chaotic sub atomic particles STAR IGNITION «Let there be light» (Day One)-- God was the light or light
from reionizing the universe
PLANETARY ACCRETION = > EARTH, MOON = > WATER = > ATMOSPERE «Separated the waters to make atmosphere» (Day Two)-- molten earth or water forming atmosphere as cools.
About 70 percent of the lunar plains come
from either Orientale or one other similar basin, she reported March 22 at the Lunar and
Planetary Science Conference.
But modern technological innovations have «blown things open for us,» she said, meaning astrobiology is seeing huge amounts of relevant information come
from every direction,
from medicine to
planetary science.
-- requires input
from an incredibly wide range of disciplines, including astrophysics, geology, exoplanet
science,
planetary science, chemistry and various subfields of biology.
The program brings together researchers
from Earth
science,
planetary science, heliophysics and astrophysics, to pursue specific goals that support the larger pursuit of looking for alien life.
«But Comet ISON was found when it was far
from the sun, six times Earth's distance, so we've had a lot of time to do observational planning,» says Jian - Yang Li of the
Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz..
«It thrills me to no end that people all over the world took a break
from their normal activities to go outside and celebrate the interplanetary salute between robot and maker that these images represent,» said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. «The whole event underscores for me our «coming of age» as
planetary explorers.»
They were protesting plans in US President Barack Obama's 2013 budget request to cut 21 %
from NASA's
planetary -
science budget, and 38 %
from its Mars projects.
They found that water vapour and chlorine and bromine
from vaporised sea salts would destroy ozone high in Earth's atmosphere at a much faster rate than it is naturally created (Earth and
Planetary Science Letters, DOI: 10.1016 / j.epsl.2010.08.036).
A team led by Kaveh Pahlevan at Yale University calculate that as rock vapour rose
from Earth's hot, roiling surface, the magnesium oxide it contained would have condensed into droplets and rained back to the surface more readily than the more volatile iron oxide, which could then have mixed into the moon - forming disc (Earth and
Planetary Science Letters, DOI: 10.1016 / j.epsl.2010.10.036).
The stone is also markedly carbon - rich, more so than other known extraterrestrial material aside
from comets, the researchers will report in an upcoming issue of Earth and
Planetary Science Letters.
That holds for Florida State's Humayun, who knew that Black Beauty was going to be special
from the moment Agee spoke at the 2012 Lunar and
Planetary Science Conference.
Black and Mittal, both in UC Berkeley's Department of Earth and
Planetary Science, were drawn to the question of what might happen to Phobos because its fate is expected to be so different
from that of most other moons in our solar system.
Science has progressed
from wild speculation about Earth's
planetary neighbors — including how they formed and whether they are inhabited — to a better understanding of our celestial neighborhood
The sale is a protest of plans in President Obama's 2013 budget request to cut 21 percent
from NASA's
planetary science budget, and 38 percent
from its Mars projects
► «[Last] month, Maria Zuber, a
planetary geophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, took over
from Dan Arvizu as chair of the National
Science Board,» which «oversees the National
Science Foundation (NSF),» Jeffrey Mervis wrote Tuesday.
This month Maria Zuber, a
planetary geophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, took over
from Dan Arvizu as chair of the National
Science Board.
If NASA is serious about human exploration of Mars, then
science measurements
from a NeMO are essential, says Alfred McEwen, director of the
Planetary Image Research Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson and principal investigator of MRO's HiRISE.
Reviewing this recent work in the Dec. 4
Science,
planetary scientists Benjamin Weiss of MIT and Sonia Tikoo of the University of California, Berkeley conclude that this magnetic field originated
from flowing material inside the moon.
The images may fill «one of the missing links» in the chain
from embryonic stars to mature
planetary systems, says astronomer Steven Beckwith, new director of the Space Telescope
Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
With data
from Voyager, Galileo, New Horizons, Hubble and now Juno, we have a better understanding of the composition and evolution of this iconic feature,» said Jim Green, NASA's director of
planetary science.
«Let's take a picture,» Asmin «Oz» Pathare of the
Planetary Science Institute says into his walkie - talkie, a hundred yards away
from us.
Maria Zuber Professor of Geophysics and
Planetary Science, MIT Using laser ranging, gravity measurements, and data
from spacecraft, Zuber maps surface features and probes the interior of Mars, Venus, Jupiter's moons, and our own moon.
The team, including researchers
from Brock University in Canada, the U.S. non-profit
Planetary Science Institute, and the Nordic Volcanological Center in Iceland collected samples
from Askja for the first time last summer.
Elisabetta Pierazzo of the
Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, and colleagues used a global climate model to study how water vapour and sea salt thrown up
from an impact will affect ozone levels for years after the event.
The team, led by Alexis Rodriguez of the
Planetary Science Institute in Arizona, looked at snapshots taken
from three Mars orbiters.
«This process may be making a lot of the stuff of life, without any help
from things that are alive,» says John Rummel, senior scientist for astrobiology for NASA's
Planetary Science Division, who was not involved in the study.
«Hao's breakthrough is in understanding how Mercury is different
from the Earth so we could understand Mercury's strongly hemispherical magnetic field,» said Russell, a co-author of the research and a professor in the UCLA College's department of Earth,
planetary and space
sciences.
Shapiro stresses that it is unclear whether Congress will give further funds to
planetary protection, noting that if it doesn't, there is a risk of the money being taken away
from space
science.
Already the National
Science Foundation, through its
Planetary Biodiversity Inventories for select groups of organisms has shown that intense, team efforts can speed the discovery and classification of unknown organisms, says meeting organizer Quentin Wheeler
from Arizona State.
But at a presentation yesterday at the European
Planetary Science Congress in Rome, researchers
from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a hitch in the latter prospect.
«It's been a mystery since we first got the temperature data
from New Horizons,» said first author Xi Zhang, assistant professor of Earth and
planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.
With entry categories for
science / healthcare workers and the under 25s as well as professional and amateur photographers, the competition is an opportunity to stimulate an interest in any area of
science,
from planetary movements to cellular signalling or more general topics such as physics or the environment, as well as demonstrating artistic flair.
A new study published in Meteoritics &
Planetary Science reveals that the iron in at least one of the Gerzeh beads came
from outer space.
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Vanderbilt University, and published online this weekend by the journal Earth and
Planetary Science Letters in a paper titled, «Iceland is not a magmatic analog for the Hadean: Evidence
from the zircon record.»
Heat
from the impact that made Occator probably allowed a mixture of ice, salts, and rock in Ceres's interior to become more fluid and rise up to the surface, scientists reported today at the Lunar and
Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.
But some regions may become redder and darker than others because parts of the atmosphere collapse, exposing those spots to more surface - darkening radiation
from space, researchers report March 22 at the Lunar and
Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.
One problem: That's not possible - or, at least, has never been easily explained - according to a new paper published in Earth and
Planetary Science Letters
from a team of scientists at Case Western Reserve University.
Grove and his colleagues, including researchers
from the University of Hanover, in Germany; the University of Liége, in Belgium; and the University of Bayreuth, in Germany, have published their results in Earth and
Planetary Science Letters.
At a
planetary science conference last week in Tucson, Arizona, members of the orbiter's camera team presented images that showed arcs of dust emanating
from jets — a finding that could help them understand the mechanisms of outgassing.
Here, we revise and update the
planetary boundary framework, with a focus on the underpinning biophysical
science, based on targeted input
from expert research communities and on more general scientific advances over the past 5 years.
Scientists
from the USGS, the University of Arizona, Durham University (England) and the
Planetary Science Institute analyzed narrow, down - slope trending surface features on Mars that are darker than their surroundings, called Recurring Slope Lineae, or RSL.
Our atmosphere is a better shield
from meteoroids than researchers thought, according to a new paper published in Meteoritics &
Planetary Science.
Minerals crystallize
from basaltic magma in a certain order, explained Alian Wang, PhD, research professor in earth and
planetary sciences in Arts &
Sciences at Washington University.