Sentences with phrase «habitability in»

«Our results expose a specific regional hotspot where climate change, in the absence of significant mitigation, is likely to severely impact human habitability in the future,» they say.

In the context of this new roadmap, astrobiology is understood as the study of the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the context of cosmic evolution; this includes habitability in the Solar System and beyond.

The authors raised the possibility of ancient habitability in their paper, but that remains a contentious topic for Martian exploration.

«Habitability in a wider sense is not necessarily restricted to water as a solvent or to a planet circling a star.

«Our results expose a specific regional hot spot where climate change, in the absence of significant [carbon cuts], is likely to severely impact human habitability in the future,» said Jeremy Pal and Elfatih Eltahir of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writing in the journal Nature Climate Change.

European Geosciences Union Galileo conference Geoscience for understanding habitability in the solar system and beyond Furnas, São Miguel, Azores,...

The implications for habitability in these systems were the focus of the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting.

Not exact matches

No predictions were made as to the future habitability of the Town of Tangier at 2100 or the types of habitat (upland or wetland) that might be present, though study authors did note that interior water had increased over time and that present upland ridges may need to be raised in the future.

In an attempt to dispel this shadow Jeans calculated that the Earth has many millions of years of habitability ahead of it, so that Man is still only on the threshold of his existence.

«Tenants have a right to basic conditions being maintained,» he said, pointing to the Warranty of Habitability law, which states that residents have the right to a «livable, safe and sanitary apartment» as a part of every legal lease agreement in the city.

In November a team led by Washington State University astrobiologist Dirk Schulze - Makuch devised the Planetary Habitability Index, or PHI, a scoring system for distant worlds that measures their suitability for any kind of life, not merely life as we know it.

A plethora of new observatories — chief among them NASA's multi-billion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope, slated to launch in 2019 — could soon begin studying the planets of TRAPPIST - 1 and other nearby red - dwarf planets for signs of habitability and life.

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At the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Dec. 13, 2017, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Brain described how insights from the MAVEN mission could be applied to the habitability of rocky planets orbiting other stars.

«Habitability is one of the biggest topics in astronomy, and these estimates demonstrate one way to leverage what we know about Mars and the Sun to help determine the factors that control whether planets in other systems might be suitable for life,» said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN's principal investigator at the University of Colorado Boulder.

This includes places like parts of the eastern Pacific Ocean where small animals like nematodes and specially adapted fish live on the fringes of habitability, subsisting in waters where oxygen concentrations can be only about 1 % of normal surface water levels.

Radiolysis may also contribute to the potential habitability of ocean worlds in another way.

«The question whether so - called exoplanets are habitable or not is difficult to answer, as we do not know all the necessary conditions a planet has to fulfill in order to be habitable,» said Yann Alibert of the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University of Bern.

If the search for organics turns up empty, Aeolis Mons may hold other clues to habitability, says project scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Led by Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, the Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability (ELSAH) mission would fly through a plume to seek out signs of biology lurking within the tiny moon.

Bean and Kempton, meanwhile, are interested in detailing what a statistical census of biologically significant gases such as oxygen, carbon dioxide and ozone could reveal about planetary habitability.

It's an exciting result given that some scientists argue that large moons and habitability go hand in hand, Eisner says.

In the process, he makes the case for habitability look even better than Adams inferred.

Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have recently raised doubts about water on — and thus potential habitability of — frequently cited exoplanets that orbit red dwarfs, the most common stars in the Milky Way.

Research Topic 1 Origin and Evolution of Planetary Systems Research Topic 2 Origins of Organic Compounds in Space Research Topic 3 Rock - Water - Carbon Interactions, Organic Synthesis on Earth, and Steps to Life Research Topic 4 Life and Habitability Research Topic 5 Biosignatures as Facilitating Life Detection

Whereas these discoveries have offered broad information about planets in the Milky Way — sizes, masses and orbital periods — they have told us far less about climate, weather and habitability.

This ability to survive in extreme conditions «might be important when we consider the habitability of other bodies in our solar system or beyond,» says astrobiologist Gerda Horneck of the German Aerospace Center.

«A magnetic field protects the atmosphere of a planet or moon, and the atmosphere protects the surface,» says study coauthor Sonia Tikoo, a planetary scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. Together, the two protect the potential habitability of the planet or moon, possibly those far beyond our solar system.

One clue to potential habitability is a planet's mass — something not precisely nailed down in previous measurements of the TRAPPIST - 1 worlds.

Based on humankind's admittedly limited experience, habitability seems to mean a small world — a terrestrial planet rather than a gas giant like Jupiter or Saturn — orbiting its star at a comfortable «Goldilocks» distance that allows water to persist in liquid form.

«The discovery that water vapour is ejected near the south pole strengthens Europa's position as the top candidate for potential habitability,» said lead author Lorenz Roth of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

«What was missing to complete the story of habitability was an energy source,» says Chris McKay at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.

Understanding the origin and fate of methane on these bodies will provide crucial clues to the processes that shape the formation, evolution and habitability of terrestrial worlds in this solar system and possibly in others.

This week, walk like an elephant — very far, with seeds in your guts, Cassini's mission to Saturn wraps up with news on the habitability of its icy moon Enceladus, and how our shoes manage to untie themselves with Online News Editor David Grimm.

After two hours of hike up on a rocky trail in the Italian Alps, finally I stand at an elevation just above 2,500 meters, staring at a breathtaking and unique mountain range, the Dolomites, that holds an exciting clue to the habitability of our planet.

Such an issue can play a significant role in identifying possible conditions for habitability, one of the main targets of the upcoming ESA JUICE mission.

From the DistantEarths blog of Daniel Apai After two hours of hike up on a rocky trail in the Italian Alps, finally I stand at an elevation just above 2,500 meters, staring at a breathtaking and unique mountain range, the Dolomites, that holds an exciting clue to the habitability of our planet.

«If we go to Enceladus, we essentially get a free sample,» said Nimmo, who presented a paper at the American Geophysical Union conference earlier this month about how the properties of ice impact the habitability of moons in the outer solar system.

Myself and Ravi Kopparapu address these questions in a chapter titled, «The Drake equation as a function of spectral type and time,» which appears in the book Habitability of the Universe Before Earth.

Topics covered: Cloud and haze formation and evolution in Earth Atmosphere — Radiative Transfer and Polarization in Atmosphere Characterization — Atmospheric Circulation Regimes for Solar System and Exoplanets — Clouds and Hazes in the Early Earth — Clouds and Planetary Habitability — Clouds and Hazes in Jupiter, Saturn, Titan — Clouds and Hazes in Strongly Irradiated Exoplanets — Clouds and Hazes in Weakly Irradiated - Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs

Since the bulk of the stars in the Milky Way are red dwarfs, «one can not avoid studying them to understand planet formation or to evaluate the habitability potential of our galaxy,» HARPS researcher Xavier Bonfils, with France's Observatory of Sciences of the Universe of Grenoble, wrote in an email to Discovery News.

More generally, these two results demonstrate that the longterm habitability (and astronomical observables) of a terrestrial planet can depend on the detailed architecture of the planetary system in which it resides.

By studying the habitability of the Universe throughout cosmic history from the birth of the first stars 30 million years after the Big Bang to the death of the last stars in ten trillion years, I concluded6, 7 that unless habitability around low mass stars is suppressed, life is most likely to exist near dwarf stars like Proxima or TRAPPIST - 1 ten trillion years from now.

We suggest that the habitability of red dwarf systems may peak in the far future, while the present time is optimal for habitability around yellow and orange dwarf stars.

Yet a growing number of studies in recent years have suggested that red dwarfs may ultimately be some of the best types of stars to search for exoplanets and habitability.

Drabek - Maunder says: «Recent discoveries that icy moons in our outer Solar System could host oceans of liquid water and ingredients for life have sparked exciting possibilities for their habitability.

In this case, such a check had implications for the putative habitability of Kepler - 61b: the planet is 10 % warmer and larger than inferred from K - band spectral characterization.

The steep drop off in high - energy activity for Sun - like and lower mass stars after 1 billion years is good news for the habitability of exoplanets orbiting these stellar bodies, as the atmospheres of these worlds would not have to endure as much radiation as previously believed.

The objective of the MAVEN mission EPO program is to engage multiple audiences in the quest to understand Mars» long - term atmospheric losses, giving insight into the history of Mars» atmosphere and climate, liquid water, and planetary habitability.

Knowing the right combination other warming agents, such as water vapor, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide, will also help us assess habitability of the hundreds of billions of other Earth - like planets estimated to reside in our galaxy.