Sentences with phrase «gave planetary scientists»

It's currently impossible to probe beneath the icy crust of a planet like Pluto, but if Ceres does have an exposed frozen (once subsurface) ocean, that gives planetary scientists a useful proxy.

Porco called on other scientists on the panel to come up with a «working definition» of life that could give planetary scientists guidance as to what else they should look for.

HDST would also provide detailed data on the interaction of each of the outer planets with the solar wind and give planetary scientists the ability to search for remote, hidden members of our solar system ranging in size from dwarf planets to ice giants like Neptune.

Not exact matches

Planetary scientist Bill Farrell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and colleagues will argue in Geophysical Research Letters that we shouldn't give up the search just yet, however.

That double detection gives Alexander Hayes, a planetary scientist at Cornell, extra confidence.

«We have a mission and an obligation, given who we are and the benefits we enjoy as a result of our status as scientists, to address major science - based issues in society,» said Huybers, a professor of earth and planetary sciences and environmental science and engineering at Harvard University.

The probe sent back more data than giddy planetary scientists had ever had before, but the thrill of the mission came less from what it told them about Mercury than from the inkling it gave them of what they had yet to learn.

Apparently, Nozette was ready to give up his life as a leading planetary scientist.

«When a star ages and brightens, the habitable zone moves outward and you're basically giving a second wind to a planetary system,» exoplanet scientist Ramses M. Ramirez, a researcher at Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute, said in a statement.

«This observation gives us a good picture of part of the composition of ISON and, by extension, of the proto - planetary disk from which the planets were formed,» said Carey Lisse, leader of NASA's Comet ISON Observation Campaign and a senior research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

While the 2013 test was used to send up a HySICS, planetary scientists are raring to give the system a go.