Sentences with phrase «habitable environments in»

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

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.

Jupiter's icy moon Europa is a major target of astrobiology research in light of the possibility that it offers a habitable environment in the Solar System.

Landlords have a responsibility to maintain a habitable environment in a residential property in compliance with local housing codes.

Not exact matches

One possible strategy for making Mars habitable over the long term is to «terraform» it — manipulate its environment so, in the simplest terms, the planet warms up, ice turns into water, and plants can be introduced, which will convert the atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen, with the goal of creating a stable and breathable atmosphere.

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

«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.

On some missions, such as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover (now deep into its third Earth year seeking signs of habitable conditions on the Red Planet), the excess heat from the MMRTG can also be used to keep spacecraft systems warm in cold environments.

These planets in the habitable zones of their stars, while able to support liquid water on their surfaces, develop in dry environments and need to have ice sent in from farther out.

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.

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 BaIn 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 Bain 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 Bain and near Yellowknife Bay.

They concluded that the environment was habitable less than 4 billion years ago, which is a relatively late point in the planet's history.

Although it is in the star's habitable zone, this planet faces an extreme space environment that is stripping its atmosphere and generating powerful aurorae.

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.

Orbiting Ceres since 2015, the Dawn spacecraft picked up hints of organic material on the dwarf planet's surface, researchers reported in February — a sign that Ceres may have once had a habitable environment.

There are several subspecies which occur in different world regions, including also the ubiquitous domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus), which has been introduced to every habitable continent and most of the world's larger islands, and has become feral in many of those environments.

So it is a good place to study analogous environments for when life originated, and in places that are habitable beyond Earth despite their hot, cold, salty, high pressure, acidic, alkaline, etc. nature.

The success of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity in finding tell - tale signs of past water at its Meridiani Planum landing site has left some researchers believing the region could have once been a habitable, albeit still hostile, environment.

This discovery sharpens the distinction between habitable and uninhabitable planets and illuminates the importance of environment in the formation of planets.

«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.

«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.

«Really, the big thing in this package of six papers is that we've accomplished the mission goal of finding a habitable environment,» Caltech's John Grotzinger, the principal investigator for Curiosity's $ 2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, told NBC News.

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

Regarding the search for extraterrestrial life, the one major habitable zone in the inner solar system that has not been sampled at all is the Venusian cloud layer, which in terms of temperature, pressure and gravity is the most Earthlike extraterrestrial environment in the solar system.

Analog studies in hydrocarbon environments on Earth, in fact, clearly indicate that these environments are habitable in principle.

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

«The global nature of Enceladus» ocean and the inference that hydrothermal systems might exist at the ocean's base strengthen the case that this small moon of Saturn may have environments similar to those at the bottom of our own ocean,» said Jonathan Lunine, an interdisciplinary scientist on the Cassini mission at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. «It is therefore very tempting to imagine that life could exist in such a habitable realm, a billion miles from our home.»

The Great Courses has partnered with the Smithsonian to produce a vivid exploration of life in this fascinating space — the environment that accounts for 99 percent of Earth's habitable space.

Magnetic fields play an important role in making a planet habitable by protecting the environment from the solar wind.

Phyllosilicates are clay - like minerals, formed in the presence of a neutral - pH water, and are indicative of a habitable environment.

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

In this Astronomy Talk, Dr. Carl Pilcher, Interim Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, will help us study the four billion - year evolution of life and our planet to consider how habitable environments and life itself might arise elsewhere in the UniversIn this Astronomy Talk, Dr. Carl Pilcher, Interim Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, will help us study the four billion - year evolution of life and our planet to consider how habitable environments and life itself might arise elsewhere in the Universin the Universe.

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.

In May 2016, she gave a keynote address, along with Catherine de Zegher, at the international conference «Penetrable / Traversable / Habitable: Exploring spatial environments by women artists in the 1960s and 1970s,» held in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste GulbenkiaIn May 2016, she gave a keynote address, along with Catherine de Zegher, at the international conference «Penetrable / Traversable / Habitable: Exploring spatial environments by women artists in the 1960s and 1970s,» held in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkiain the 1960s and 1970s,» held in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkiain Lisbon, Portugal, at the Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

The remaining fraction — trapped in part by greenhouse gases — sustains the habitable environment to which we are accustomed.