Sentences with phrase «how planetary surface»

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By attempting to understand the subterranean structures of the planet and how they modify its surface features, Kircher could be said to have exhibited a «planetary» consciousness three centuries before the Gaia hypothesis proposed that we look at Earth as a giant self - regulating system.

Professor Ray Burgess, co-author and also from The University of Manchester, added: «The new simplified model we have developed is a big step forward in understanding how key ingredients essential for life were brought to our planet, including water that probably helped distribute the halogens between the planetary interior and surface.»

Scientists record the size and number of impact craters — and how eroded they are — to determine the ages and histories of different planetary surfaces.

As significant uncertainties about the thickness of the surface ice still exist, some planetary scientists have identified two possible mechanisms for how possible volcanic heat can escape to the surface from Europa's rocky mantle and be carried upward by buoyant oceanic currents.

However, there is an additional shortcoming due to the fact that the equilibrium temperature is also affected by the ratio of the Earth's geometrical cross-section to its surface area as well as how much is reflected, the planetary albedo (A).

To achieve this we will work closely with Project 1.1, and study how organics and volatiles chemically bind to grain surfaces present in the planetary accretion disk.

(The ESA spacecraft arrived at Sol's hottest planet on March 11, 2006, where it is being used to investigate how Venus — although similar to Earth in size, mass, and composition — evolved over the past 4.6 billion years to have atmospheric and planetary surface characteristics that now appear very different from those on Earth.)

On top of that, the assets developed for planetary creation (including the creation of the planets themselves) are «using the proper scientific processes, from first principles, in terms of how the solar system was formed... You get rocks forming first, when planetesimals stick together, then liquid forming on the surface.»

The PROBLEM was, how could such a tiny alteration of out planetary solar budget evoke such a huge transformation of Physical State and temperatures, upon the surface?