Sentences with phrase «habitable is»

Yet the importance of plants» ability to store carbon in making the planet habitable is still not widely appreciated.

The only way to find out if the moon is still habitable is to go back on a future mission, he says.

Habitable is defined by, among other things, the Goldilocks zone, that magical narrow band of space extending around a sun where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold, where water can exist as a liquid.

Ultraviolet radiation could strip not only the water vapor from a habitable M dwarf planet, but also the oxygen and nitrogen in just tens of millions of years, astrophysicist Vladimir Airapetian of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues suggested in the February 10 Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The idea that the clouds of Venus are potentially habitable was proposed decades ago by biophysicist Harold Morowitz and astronomer Carl Sagan.

The Polyhedron Habitable was created as a space for the parents and young children to spend some quiet bonding time.

Abstract The major biogeochemical cycles which keep the present - day Earth habitable are linked by a network of feedbacks which has led to a broadly stable chemical composition of the oceans and atmosphere...

We finally bought a fixer upper right on the beach, but until it's habitable we are camped out in a postage stamp sized apartment over a market in China Town!

Not exact matches

Should we discover a habitable ocean with the next Europa mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2022, or even hints of life, researchers are ready to up the ante.

Bezos» Blue Origin is rapidly passing milestones with its BE-4 engine, SpaceX astounded millions with its Falcon Heavy launch, Virgin Galactic completed the first powered flight of its Unity rocket and Bigelow took the next step toward the world's first habitable private space station with Bigelow Space Operations.

While just 49 of Kepler's thousands of planet candidates are Earth - size and in a habitable zone, the discovery has rocked the scientific world: This could mean billions of such worlds exist in the Milky Way galaxy alone.

That doesn't guarantee these planets are habitable, though.

The six - wheeled rover quickly delivered, finding that an area near its landing site called Yellowknife Bay was indeed habitable billions of years ago.

The executive who started his business selling books said activities that require the most energy should be performed in space, in order to leave Earth clean and habitable for humans.

«There was no Arctic sea ice in the summer, maybe even in the winter, and big trees were growing all the way to the top of Canada, so that was habitable.

«These pools would have been habitable for life, just as they are on Earth.»

«Eventually,» Jones says,» [Musk] can deliver cargo, he can deliver rocket fuel, and maybe even habitable modules — privately built modules that could be part of an outpost in lunar orbit, or put together to go to an asteroid.

«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.

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.

The second stage is the short - term recovery, which involves restoring power where possible and moving residents back into homes that are still habitable.

Both homes were completely transformed to become habitable, safe and clean, more than two months following the storm.

But, other than that, it's the most habitable planet NASA has yet discovered.

But, other than that, it's the most habitable...

Typically, the stomach isn't really considered a habitable environment by a human being.

If we're counting on this tiny bubble in space being habitable, we're not going to be around for long.

Excuse me I meant the planet will still «exist» technically it just wont be habitable.

First, Connelly argues, the population - control movement was wrong as a matter of fact: «The two strongest claims population controllers make for their long - term historical contribution» are «that they raised Asia out of poverty and helped keep our planet habitable.»

Because here, it is called the galactic habitable zone and contains just the right concentrations of chemical elements needed to support life as well being away from dangerous radiation.

Our planet, and it's sisters Mars and Venus, were in the habitable zone of our sun's energy, and so either of the 3 could have developed life.

It is a melancholy consideration, that there is no country in Europe, or perhaps in the habitable world, where the horrid crime of self - murder is so common as it is in England!

NASA: Three planets found are some of best candidates so far for habitable worlds outside our solar system.

, and that «the Bible doesn't actually command contentious women to sit on their roofs, and rooftops in the ancient Near East would have been flat and habitable anyway» (p. 17).

I was reminded of the similarities the other day when I happened upon biologist Jerry A. Coyne's observation that «evolution is like an architect who can not design a building from scratch, but must build every new structure by adapting a preexisting building, keeping the structure habitable all the while.»

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

But as I reflected on your comments and on my own insecurities and fears, I realized that what you're really asking for (and what I really need) is not an end to the theological construction zone, but rather the assurance that the structure remains habitable, that life can go on in the midst of all the drilling and sawing and hammering.

The Church must not settle down with what is merely comfortable and serviceable at theparish level; she must arouse the voice of the cosmos and, by glorifying the Creator, elicit the glory of the cosmos itself, making it also glorious, beautiful, habitable, and beloved.»

No Heaven, no pergatory, no limbo, no hell... just each waking day on this planet that you should be greatful and helping your fellow man / woman survive and and improve their environment, while looking for a way off of this rock and to another habitable one; before planet Earth is hit by huge asteroids, swallowed by an expanding sun or rendered inhabitable by our own foolish actions.

or they have faith that there are other habitable planets (I believe that)..

We now know that a good percentage of Stars have planets, some of which fall into the «Goldilocks» habitable zone and that it is highly likely that life exists richly throughout our galaxy and all the others.

There are many potential habitable exoplanets but potential is a long way from probable.

«we do know that other earth like planets have been discovered, what we don't know is whether or not they are inhabitable» = > again we don't know if they are habitable or inhabitable.

«You have basically stated that we are the only inhabitable planet, to say that is completely dishonest» = > That is news to me as I am not aware of such «habitable» planet.

when he marked out the foundations of the earth: then I was by him as a master - workman and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him: rejoicing in his habitable earth, and my delight was with the sons of men (Prov.

We just happen to be on one of the billions / trillions of habitable planets and that's just for life as we understand it to exist.

(5) Of the five zones only three are habitable.

But apart from the fact that Venus is probably not habitable (is there water?)

They are much smaller, dimmer and cooler than stars like our Sun, and for a long time scientists searching for life on other worlds paid little attention to them; the general feeling was that they gave out so little heat and light, compared with the Sun, that they were unlikely to host habitable planets.

In March 2009 Nasa launched its Kepler Space Telescope, which was specifically designed, as its mission statement says, to «search for habitable planets».

As a result the surface is much hotter on the near side than on the far side, and the most habitable zone would be the intermediate area between the light and dark sides of the planet.

So far Nasa has detected nine confirmed exoplanets, though none that would be in their star's habitable zone.