Sentences with phrase «key ingredient for life»

Those elements are also key ingredients for life.

Asteroid collisions can be destructive — just ask the dinosaurs — but they also bring key ingredients for life.

With this new finding Dawn has shown that Ceres contains key ingredients for life.»

Such was the announcement during NASA's April 13th press conference: that all three of the presumed key ingredients for life have been detected coming from Enceladus.

When stars and planets form, those snowflakes get swept up, delivering key ingredients for life.

Previous rovers uncovered ample evidence of ancient water, a key ingredient for life as we know it.

For decades, thinking about the best way to search for extraterrestrials has centered on a «Goldilocks» zone where temperatures are «just right» for liquid water, a key ingredient for life, to wet the surface of an Earth doppelgänger.

That would make these regions (pictured right) potential hotspots for alien life because they would have held chemical - rich water — a key ingredient for life.

Although ocean worlds are swimming in what is thought to be a key ingredient for life — water — their lack of land may limit how much of it they can host.

Liquid water is generally considered a key ingredient for life.

The findings: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorous — key ingredients for life — plus chemicals such as sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide that could provide energy for microorganisms.

Some of the key ingredients for life may have been shocked into existence.

But she warns about jumping to the conclusion that newly formed planets are seeded with all the key ingredient for life.

In 2008, the Phoenix Mars Lander sent back photos of ice chunks it had found after scooping up handfuls of soil, a huge discovery in the search for liquid water — a key ingredient for life.

HD 209458b, for example, was found with water, methane and carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, all key ingredients for life.

Another key ingredient for life was found the following year: NASA scientists detected methane in the Martian atmosphere, indicating that the planet is still alive.

Those elements are key ingredients for life.

Though Mars is barren today, scientists think water — a key ingredient for life — would have covered its surface in the form of oceans, rivers and streams.

That's important because water is a key ingredient for life.