Clive Hamilton, an ethicist at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, argued that humans have already entered a frightening period
in planetary history.
Temps have been higher commonly
in the planetary history than in the current Ice Age.
Not exact matches
This quantification of the span of human
history would modify the Platonic conception
in the Timaeus, making the
history of the world a homogeneous and indefinite continuum, a simple reflection of the eternal return of the interlocking
planetary cycles, with their conjunctions and oppositions.
The
history of science provides many examples of this combination of analogy and innovation
in the creation of models which were useful
in generating theories.4 The «Bohr model» of the atom,
in which «
planetary» electrons revolve
in orbits around a central nucleus, resembles the solar system
in certain of its dynamical properties; but the key assumption of quantum jumps between orbits had no classical parallel at all.
«A
history of Venus is stored
in the atmosphere,» says Larry Esposito, a
planetary scientist at the University of Colorado
in Boulder.
The all - sky infrared survey should also map out the
history of light production by galaxies and — closer to home — the distribution of ices
in embryonic
planetary systems.
Over
planetary history, warm - blood animals have outperformed cold - blooded animals
in adapting to changing temperatures
The new findings are observational evidence supporting the idea that icy bodies are also present
in other
planetary systems, and have survived throughout the
history of the star's evolution.
That level of fascination made sense
in the days before telescopes could observe details
in planetary atmospheres, before space probes had explored Mars and bulldozed into a comet, and before we understood the
history of asteroid and comet collisions, linking celestial bodies large and small.
Korenaga is a co-investigator of the NASA «Alternative Earths» team, which is organized around the principle of understanding how Earth has maintained a persistent biosphere through most of its
history, how the biosphere manifests
in «biosignatures» on a
planetary scale, and how reconstructing this
history can inform the search for life within and beyond the solar system.
The planet's death could happen very early
in a solar system's
history, or it could happen billions of years later, says
planetary scientist and co-author Rory Barnes of the University of Washington, Seattle.
Prevailing theories of solar system formation, Levison explains, hold that early
in the system's
history there were plenty of icy objects left over from
planetary formation.
The results, published July 30
in Nature, provide insights into the moon's early
history, its orbital evolution, and its current orientation
in the sky, according to lead author Ian Garrick - Bethell, assistant professor of Earth and
planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.
Unafraid of controversy
in his role as director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural
History, Tyson insisted that the museum deny Pluto
planetary status years before the scientific establishment caught up with the idea.
That timing, says
planetary scientist Dave Stegman, a research fellow at the University of Melbourne
in Australia, is «actually quite serendipitous — that's exactly the time
in lunar
history during which a dynamo could either be dying down or just starting to ramp up.»
SOFIA, an infrared telescope that rides
in the back of a modified jumbo jet, holds appeal to both astronomers and
planetary scientists, but its large operating expenses and long
history of problems and delays had made it prime target for budget cutters.
Planetary scientists have discovered pieces of opal
in a meteorite found
in Antarctica, a result that demonstrates that meteorites delivered water ice to asteroids early
in the
history of the solar system.
After a few hours or weeks, depending on how super the supercomputer is, a thousand years of
planetary nebula
history is waiting
in the computer's memory to be studied
in detail.
Now, two new studies of Kuiper belt objects presented October 5 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for
Planetary Sciences
in Pasadena, Calif., may reveal a crucial hole a prevailing model of the solar system's early
history.
The Mars Exploration Program studies Mars as a
planetary system
in order to understand the formation and early evolution of Mars as a planet, the
history of geological processes that have shaped Mars through time, the potential for Mars to have hosted life, and the future exploration of Mars by humans.
One holds that the impact occurred early
in Earth's
history; another posits that two later collisions
in sequence were responsible'or else a
planetary body much larger than Mars must have been involved.
WASP - 39b likely had an interesting evolutionary
history as it migrated
in, taking an epic journey across its
planetary system and perhaps obliterating
planetary objects
in its path.»
«No government
in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for
planetary protection to any of its agencies,» ASE member Rusty Schweickart, who flew on the Apollo 9 mission
in 1969, said Friday during a panel discussion at the American Museum of Natural
History in New York City.
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.
The all - inclusive annual ASE
Planetary Congress, held
in a different host country each year, has a long
history as the premier forum for astronauts and cosmonauts from all spacefaring nations to meet and exchange information about their respective space agencies, human spaceflight operations and future plans for exploration beyond low earth orbit.
In a fascinating set of projects we will look at the smallest scales and back in time, probing the mineralogy and composition of micron - sized grains in ancient meteorites using the most sophisticated microscopic techniques, to explore the history of volatiles and organics in planetary building blocks at the time when the Solar System was youn
In a fascinating set of projects we will look at the smallest scales and back
in time, probing the mineralogy and composition of micron - sized grains in ancient meteorites using the most sophisticated microscopic techniques, to explore the history of volatiles and organics in planetary building blocks at the time when the Solar System was youn
in time, probing the mineralogy and composition of micron - sized grains
in ancient meteorites using the most sophisticated microscopic techniques, to explore the history of volatiles and organics in planetary building blocks at the time when the Solar System was youn
in ancient meteorites using the most sophisticated microscopic techniques, to explore the
history of volatiles and organics
in planetary building blocks at the time when the Solar System was youn
in planetary building blocks at the time when the Solar System was young.
If the
history of
planetary exploration is any indication, then New Horizons is bound to provide the next paradigm shift
in our understanding of the many different and fascinating worlds within our
planetary family and possibly beyond as well.
They received the prize «for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance
in the understanding of the
history of our
planetary system.»
We explore these mechanisms for cases of both magnetized and unmagnetized planets,
in order to characterize the potential influence on the rotational
history of the star, as well as the
planetary orbital migration.
The Cassini Mission at Saturn has been one of the most exciting and successful
in the
history of
planetary science.
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.
Detection of tremolite, a mineral created
in the presence of water, could be used to ascertain how long any Venusian oceans lasted as a habitat for Earth - type life over the past 4.6 billion years of
planetary history (more).
THE 2014 KAVLI PRIZE
IN ASTROPHYSICS is awarded to Michael Edwards Brown, David Jewitt, and Jane Luu «for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance in the understanding of the history of our planetary system.&raqu
IN ASTROPHYSICS is awarded to Michael Edwards Brown, David Jewitt, and Jane Luu «for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance
in the understanding of the history of our planetary system.&raqu
in the understanding of the
history of our
planetary system.»
«for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance
in the understanding of the
history of our
planetary system»
With this exceptional leap
in performance, new domains
in infrared astronomy will become accessible, allowing us, for example, to unravel definitively galaxy evolution and metal production over cosmic time, to study dust formation and evolution from very early epochs onwards, and to trace the formation
history of
planetary systems.
Students enrolled
in this course will gain a strong foundation
in the
history and principles of
planetary herbal medicine.
Explore the
planetary ruins and encounter other surviving factions that have each evolved
in their own way, as you unravel the
history of a shattered civilization.
We dialogued about the role of current technological revolutions as greatest transition
in human
history, with the creation of an emergent
planetary civilization.
So yesterday we attempted to break the record for the largest tournament
in Planetary Annihilation
history, which was held by the Commander of March tournament at 53 participants, with the second largest being Clash of the TITANS, with 44.
From liquid to solid, ice holds our
planetary history in its transparent layers and informs the future based on the past.
Works such as Starling's that address the Anthropocene without leaning back on the clichéd shock imagery of disaster porn,
planetary crisis, and dystopian tech - filled landscapes can begin to articulate,
in quieter, more nuanced, and ultimately more effective modes, the racial politics, colonial
histories, capitalist superstructures and Western notions of progress that underpin its entire existence.
Anthropocene, as you likely know, is the term applied increasingly by a range of scientists and others to this period
in Earth and human
history in which our species is influencing a host of
planetary systems
in big ways with long - lasting consequences.
Over the last few years, I've gotten to know a determined cast of characters
in academia aiming to identify paths to a good Anthropocene — Anthropocene being the closest thing there is to common shorthand for this span of human - dominated
planetary history unfolding around us.
This is OK when you can completely control the replicability of a situation (eg changing the CO2
in a glass bottle) but rather more difficult
in the case of the planet you are living on, when the inferences have to be made on the basis of both what happens
in a glass bottle (physics) and what the observed behaviour of the unique subject (the
planetary climate system) has been
in terms of recent observations and its geological
history.
At just the right time
in our
history, when we all need to see the Earth from afar, we need to build this
planetary consciousness, so we can become the shepherds this great planet requires.
For more explorations of this juncture
in human and
planetary history, see the must - read collection of essays called «Love Your Monsters: Postenvironmentalism and the Anthropocene.»
Please forgive me for stating the obvious: there are mountains of scientific evidence, plenty of sound reasons and abundant common sense imploring the leaders of India, China, the US and the rest of the over-developed and under - developed world to consider that the seemingly endless, global expansion of large - scale industrialization and production capabilities, now overspreading the surface of Earth, could be approaching a point
in history when these unbridled big - business activities could dangerously destablize frangible global ecosystems, irreversibly degrade the environment, recklessly dissipate Earth's natural resource base and, perhaps, destroy our
planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children.