Sentences with phrase «habitable environments»

If it has organic molecules in its layer of liquid water, it's a candidate for habitable environments in our own solar system, scientists say.

The range of habitable environments on which life was traditionally thought to arise were determined by the presence of three key ingredients: liquid water, organic compounds, and sunlight — the same ingredients that allowed for the emergence of life on Earth approximately 3.9 billion years ago.

The potential for such activity in this small ocean world has made Enceladus a prime target for future exploration in search of habitable environments in the solar system beyond Earth.

The Curiosity rover team announced yesterday that they'd found the mission's first potentially habitable environment on Mars: an ancient river bed.

«This discovery could be a significant piece in the puzzle of finding habitable environments, places that are conducive to life,» said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Your rover will land with more precision and cover more rugged ground than any other, and it will have the best chance so far of capturing the history of water flow and the possibility of ancient habitable environments on Mars.

«The main implication is that there are potentially habitable environments in the Solar System in places which are completely unexpected.»

Raman on Mars NASA will also develop the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) ultraviolet (UV) laser spectrometer.

Beegle is principal investigator for a laser instrument called SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals).

The Martian volcano Arsia Mons may have been home to one of the most recent habitable environments yet found on the Red Planet, geologists say.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- The slopes of a giant Martian volcano, once covered in glacial ice, may have been home to one of the most recent habitable environments yet found on the Red Planet, according to new research led by Brown University geologists.

The series takes place in New York City and revolves around «the downtrodden creatures native to planet Earth's least habitable environment», with a minimalist animation style and adult - geared tone reminiscent of Archer.

«We should be looking for habitats and not habitable environments.

Europa's global ocean is the site of complex chemical interactions, suggesting a possibly habitable environment.

«But these fluvial environments aren't the best habitable environments,» Gupta says.

«If we survey a large number of planets with less detailed measurements, we can still get a statistical sense for how prevalent habitable environments are in our galaxy.

Knowing that the clays could be produced later in locations with surface water can help researchers pin down the best areas at which to look for once habitable environments, he says.

Who knows... maybe one day humans will be collecting samples from these and other habitable environments on Mars.

«Clays actually formed in the purported habitable environment,» Grotzinger said.

With water, heat and organics, the Enceledean ocean is considered to be one of the potentially most habitable environments elsewhere in the Solar System.

But Europa's only habitable environment is believed to exist in its underground ocean, rather than on its surface.

«If those plumes are connected with the subsurface water ocean we are confident exists under Europa's crust, then this means that future investigations can directly investigate the chemical makeup of Europa's potentially habitable environment without drilling through layers of ice.

At 10:31 P.M. Pacific time on August 5, NASA's Curiosity rover will begin the first direct search for habitable environments on Mars

Since Viking, though, NASA has mostly played it safe, scouring Mars's surface not for the chemical signatures of life but for ancient habitable environments — the goal of the Curiosity rover.

focuses on the downtrodden creatures native to planet Earth's least habitable environment: New York City.

«This discovery could be a significant piece in the puzzle of finding habitable environments, places that are conducive to life,» Zurbuchen stated during the news conference.

-- to explore the Solar System beyond Mars to understand how giant planets and their moons form and evolve, to search for habitable environments on and within moons (like Enceladus, Europa and Titan), and to examine the farthest bodies in the solar system for clues to the early history of the solar system.

The team's project scientist, John Grotzinger of Caltech, called the river bed the rover's first potentially habitable environment.

Future space telescopes will use similar technology to probe planets more akin to Earth, searching for signs of habitable environments and even life itself.

«There was a huge potential for a habitable environment here, and there's a lot of promise for [microscopic] fossils, perhaps, or some biological signals,» Chris Okubo, an astrogeologist at USGS and an author of the new maps, told Business Insider.

Here's what I've learned: if you use a starter (or «proto - dough» as it's called here) with commercial yeast, it will take a long time for a sour taste to develop, because wild yeasts and bacteria are what create the sourdough taste — in fact, commercial yeast doesn't create a habitable environment for the bacteria (lactobacillus) you need for sourness.

The goal of NASA's Curiosity rover mission has been to find out if Mars was ever habitable, and it has been very successful in showing that Gale crater once held a lake with water that we would even have been able to drink, but we still don't know how long this habitable environment endured.

«Really what we're doing in the mission is turning the corner from a mission dedicated to the search for a habitable environment to now looking for the subset of habitable environments that also preserves organic carbon,» Curiosity's project scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology said during a press conference at the AGU meeting on Monday.

«Previous missions to Mars have used a relatively broad brush — analyzing average chemistry over roughly the size of a postage stamp — to «follow the water» and seek ancient habitable environments.

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project is using Curiosity to assess ancient habitable environments and major changes in Martian environmental conditions.

«These minerals were formed in what is very likely to have been a habitable environment,» says Niles.

Our new data make it possible to construct a scenario in which Venus started out like the earth [did]-- possibly including a habitable environment, billions of years ago — and then evolved to the state we see now.»

What can we say for an ensemble of planets about the frequency of the existence of habitable environments, or the frequency of the existence of life on those planets?»

Predicting our climate change future, and particularly impacts on the natural systems responsible for making this planet a habitable environment for mankind, is clearly one of the most challenging problems of our time.

The discovery of organic compounds adds to the growing body of evidence that Ceres may have once had a habitable environment.

We went to Mars seeking evidence concerning whether or not it once had liquid water and a habitable environment, and I think we've found a definitive answer to that question.

In another paper in the same issue of Science Express, Grotzinger — who studies the history of Mars as a habitable environment — and colleagues examined the physical characteristics of the rock layers in and near Yellowknife Bay.

«This habitable environment existed later than many people thought possible,» Grotzinger says.

Previously, such clays — evidence of a habitable environment — were thought to have washed in from older deposits.

So while the mudstone indicates the existence of an ancient lake — and a habitable environment some time in the planet's distant past — neither crater counting nor potassium - argon dating can directly determine exactly when this was.

Many researchers are content to follow NASA's lead as it cautiously moves from «following the water» in search of likely habitable or once - habitable environments on Mars to «following the carbon» — that is, looking for chemical traces of ancient life.

And the cached samples — if ever brought back to Earth — «would address an enormous number of science questions» not just about the possible existence of life on Mars, but also its evolution as a habitable environment, he said.