Sentences with phrase «in planetary habitability»

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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.

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.

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

«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.

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

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

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.

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.

The objective of the MAVEN mission E / PO 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.

Cornerstone Evaluation Associates LLC is the external research firm charged with carrying out the evaluation activities necessary to determine the effectiveness and impact of MAVEN's Education and Public Outreach (E / PO) effort and its success in achieving its overall goal 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.»

The goal for MAVEN's informal education program is that informal science educators are equipped with the necessary tools to engage Native American youth, girls, or the public in understanding relevant aspects of MAVEN and the history of Mars» atmosphere and climate, liquid water, and planetary habitability.

In addition, planetary habitability - related proposals accounted for a very large fraction of the major proposals that responded to the latest opportunity to join the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

NExSS is a new approach to study extrasolar planets: the program's idea is to combine various studies of planetary habitability funded through existing NASA programs into a new framework — one in which the teams collaborate and have influence over the broader, longer - term research directions.

The recently discovered HD 40307 g is now ranked fourth in a list of potentially habitable planets by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico.

As research into planetary habitability continues, through theory as well as observations, we will indeed continue to observe how even basic physical principles can manifest in very different ways on these alien worlds.

The other factor that arises from this is that CMEs, of all the various dangerous stellar eminations, appear to be most responsible for planetary atmospheric erosion so anything that mitigates their effect has got to be good in terms of planetary habitability and most of all in M dwarf systems where the «habitable zone» is close to the star and well within the region of synchronous rotation.

In addition to providing a new perspective into the history of Earth, the discovery is also expected to provide significant insights into the study of planetary habitability.

(i) origin and evolution of planetary systems; (ii) origins of organic compounds in space; (iii) rock - water - carbon interactions, organic synthesis on earth, and steps to life; (iv) life and habitability; (v) biosignatures as facilitating life detection.

James Kasting is one of the pioneers of planetary habitability studies and in this book he provides an insider's view on what makes a planet habitable and how can we find planets suitable for life.

In contrast, super-Earths with a similar concentration but larger absolute amount of radioactive heat sources (i.e., uranium and thorium) than Earth would produce more internal heat, more vigorous mantle convection, and faster plate tectonic action involving thinner plates, which may promote planetary habitability with lower mountain ranges but higher volcanic activity and an atmosphere with a greater relative composition of volcanic and lighter gases (Sasselov and Valencia, Scientific American, August 2010; Valencia and O'Connell, 2009; and Valencia et al, 2007).

«The role of GISS in NExSS is to use our climate model to characterize other planetary climates and to help assess their habitability,» said Del Genio.

Their hope is to produce a library of potential planetary climates in the Universe, which can then be used for research on habitability and planet detection.

Three - dimensional (3D) planetary general circulation models (GCMs) derived from the models that we use to project 21st Century changes in Earth's climate can now be used to address outstanding questions about how Earth became and remained habitable despite wide swings in solar radiation, atmospheric chemistry, and other climate forcings; whether these different eras of habitability manifest themselves in signals that might be detected from a great distance; whether and how planets such as Mars and Venus were habitable in the past; how common habitable exoplanets might be; and how we might best answer this question with future observations.