Sentences with phrase «leading space scientists»

The Visit / Denmark, Austria, Ireland, Finland, Norway (Director: Michael Madsen)-- «This film documents an event that has never taken place...» With unprecedented access to the United Nations» Office for Outer Space Affairs, leading space scientists and space agencies, The Visit explores humans» first encounter with alien intelligent life and thereby humanity itself.

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June 4, 2013 — Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on mScientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on mscientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites.

Life - Producing Phosphorus Carried to Earth by Meteorites June 4, 2013 — Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on mScientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on mscientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites.

In space, metal is not subject to the corrosion that occurs on Earth, says Luz Marina Calle, the lead corrosion scientist at nasa.

Lead author of the paper is research scientist Andrew Jordan of the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS).

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space - based radiation as measured by a UNH - led detector aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

«This is not against fertilizer — there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it,» said Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and lead author of the study.

«Interestingly enough, the scientist who is lead primary investigator for the X-ray spectrometer for the space probe, they call it the PIXL, was his first graduate student from Macquarie University, before his KU times.

«They found moondust in every nook and cranny,» says William Larson of the Kennedy Space Center, a lead scientist and program manager in NASA's efforts to develop techniques for using lunar resources.

«Some of the most interesting sites will be those that offer fresh material — perhaps exposed by an impact, a crack or plume activity like comets have — and those with diverse material,» said Keiko Nakamura - Messenger, OSIRIS - REx sample site scientist and the deputy lead for curation at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

To better understand these events, scientists led by Aaron Evans of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, US, have trained the Hubble Space Telescope on several dozen spots in the sky where they appear underway, producing a spectacular gallery of these violent but beautiful occurrences.

Following up on the discovery, an international team of scientists led by the Swiss astronomer Vincent Bourrier from the Observatoire de l'Université de Genève, used the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the amount of ultraviolet radiation received by the individual planets of the system.

«You don't necessarily have to have a «dirtier» snowpack to make it dark,» said lead author Marco Tedesco, a research professor at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and adjunct scientist at NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies.

A team led by planetary scientist Philippe Lamy of the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale in Marseilles, France, used the Hubble Space Telescope in March to measure the light reflected from the comet.

«Instead of a prolonged, comet - like tail, this rough bubble - shape of the heliosphere is due to the strong interstellar magnetic field — much stronger than what was anticipated in the past — combined with the fact that the ratio between particle pressure and magnetic pressure inside the heliosheath is high,» said Kostas Dialynas, a space scientist at the Academy of Athens in Greece and lead author on the study.

However, a new study from a team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin - Madison Space Science and Engineering Center scientist, Claire Pettersen, describes a unique method involving cloud characteristics that could help answer some big questions about the Greenland Ice Sheet and its snowfall.

The findings appeared in the May issue of Scientific Reports and were presented by UNLV scientist Francis Cucinotta, a leading scholar on radiation and space physics.

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have led worldwide investigations into a mysterious object that passed close to Earth after arriving from deep interstellar space.

«The moon is the nearest island in space out from the Earth,» says Igor Mitrofanov at Russia's Institute for Space Research in Moscow, the project scientist for two planned Russian - led rover missspace out from the Earth,» says Igor Mitrofanov at Russia's Institute for Space Research in Moscow, the project scientist for two planned Russian - led rover missSpace Research in Moscow, the project scientist for two planned Russian - led rover missions.

«Robotic spacecraft are usually radiation - hardened to protect against these kinds of events,» said Chris St. Cyr, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the sspace scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the sSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the study.

LIFE will test an idea called transpermia, in which organisms «could be ejected off one planet in impacts, travel through space inside rocks, then be deposited on another world», says Bruce Betts, LIFE's lead scientist.

Moments after the landing, Philae lead scientist Jean - Pierre Bibring, of the Institute for Space Astrophysics in Orsay, France, was passing out toasts of Nicolas Feuillatte, a Champagne he had on hand for the occasion.

«The WMAP results are a turning point,» says astrophysicist Charles Bennett of Goddard Space Flight Center, the probe's lead scientist.

A team led by hydrospheric scientist William Krabill of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, used a laser altimeter to survey the ice height over southern Greenland by flying 400 meters above the massive ice cap.

«Our results indicate that both these phenomena, dark and bright lightning, are intrinsic processes in the discharge of lightning,» said Nikolai Østgaard, who is a space scientist at the University of Bergen in Norway and led the research team.

This research into real - time, micro - and nanoscale mechanisms of corrosion provides valuable information that the scientists can build upon, which may lead to models and predictions of how and when materials in confined spaces are likely to corrode.

The evidence showed a magnetic «twisting that started fast and slowly decreased to almost nothing as the flare occurred,» says space scientist and lead author Alysha Reinard of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

Dust will affect climate and, at the same time, climate change will affect dust,» said lead author Hongbin Yu, an associate research scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), a joint center of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

The strongest evidence for methane comes from a team led by Michael Mumma, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«We think that there is a dormant black hole there that has accreted a lump of matter — probably a star that has fallen into it,» says astrophysicist Neil Gehrels, the lead scientist for SWIFT at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Flatworms that spent five weeks aboard the International Space Station are helping researchers led by Tufts University scientists to study how an absence of normal gravity and geomagnetic fields can have anatomical, behavioral, and bacteriological consequences, according to a paper to be published June 13 in Regeneration.

«Micro-scale 3D models are an important tool for many areas of science, but for most micro or nano - scale objects only a portion of the object can be seen in the field of view,» says Gopala Mulukutla, a research scientist in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space at UNH and the study's lead author.

Schwarzschild found a solution that led scientists to the conclusion that a region of space could become so warped that it would create a gravitational well that no object could escape.

The Aurorasaurus team, led by Liz MacDonald, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, conferred to determine the identity of this mysterious phenomspace scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, conferred to determine the identity of this mysterious phenomSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, conferred to determine the identity of this mysterious phenomenon.

Guhathakurta is lead scientist for this particular eclipse at NASA, and she is a major figure in the modern effort to link the sun, its corona, space weather and Earth.

While the scientists had been hoping for a eureka moment, the results of their analysis still led them to consider that while space weather isn't a primary driver of strandings, it could be one factor among several.

For example, Senegal has «switched virtually its entire population from traditional stoves to modern ones, so it can be done,» climate scientist Drew Shindell of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, lead author of the study, wrote in an e-mail.

A study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, led by Charles Ichoku, a senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, seeks to shed light on the connection.

A team of scientists, led by Boy Lankhaar at Chalmers University of Technology, has solved an important puzzle in astrochemistry: how to measure magnetic fields in space using methanol, the simplest form of alcohol.

Writing in the current edition (Sept. 9, 2013) of the journal Icarus, a team led by UW - Madison Space Science and Engineering Center planetary scientists Lawrence Sromovsky, and including Kevin Baines and Patrick Fry, reports the discovery of the icy forms of water and ammonia.

«You still have to have an ice - breaker if you have one scientist; you still have to heat the buildings if you have one scientist,» said Norman Augustine, the former chief executive of the Lockheed Martin Corporation who led a July 2012 report on the US Antarctic Program, as he testified in a 15 November hearing of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

Herbert Funsten is recognized as a world - renowned experimental space scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missspace scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missSpace and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missSpace 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missions.

Mauna Kea, HI — A team of scientists led by astronomers at the University of California, Riverside has used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory to uncover the long - suspected underlying population of galaxies that produced the bulk of new stars during the universe's early years.

According to Reuters and the New York Times, scientists working on the space agency's Cassini mission have discovered that ice plumes on Enceladus contained molecular hydrogen (H2) from hydrothermal vents — the same environment that some researchers believe helped lead to the rise of life here on Earth.

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One of the nation's leading scientists Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama reports at his website that 7 shots were fired at the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville Alabama, all hitting the fourth floor where the office of renowned pioneering climate scientist Prof. John Christy is located.

Rad - Sat is led by Professor Richard Horne at BAS and brings together scientists from BAS and 4 UK universities with representatives from space insurance and satellite operators to deepen our understanding of the electron radiation belts and improve our forecasting capability.

Fracking Boom Leading to Fracking Bust: Scientists Quebec Oil Train Explosion Visible from Space Decision by Obama Won't Keep Oil from Flowing

The group evaluated how chemical imbalance in Europa could be initiated through the emanation of water leading to chain reactions between water and chemical elements found in Europa's crust — however, a total lack of empirical data prevents scientists from unequivocally presuming any of these events (an «Europa Mission» may take place as late as 2030, stated Nasa, the US space agency).