Sentences with phrase «lunar planetary»

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MyMoon Program Evaluation: In partnership with NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute, SEDL evaluated a new online website, MyMoon: The Public's Portal to Lunar Science Exploration Through New Media.

My Moon is an irreverent co-moon-ity from the Lunar Planetary Institute that is focused on connecting those «under 35» to resources, experts and other information about lunar exploration.

Gavin Kenny presented his findings in the Annual Lunar Planetary Conference (LPC), in Houston, Texas.

She and Treiman went head to head at a recent Lunar Planetary Society Conference.

A planet with a water cycle, habitable atmosphere or volcanic activity can replenish and circulate nutrients [source: Lunar Planetary Institute].

Not exact matches

I also suggest The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein, which gave me the idea for the Google Lunar XPrize and the work we're doing with Planetary Resources to prospect and mine asteroids.

The next epic shifting planetary configurations in 2010/2011: Jupiter conjunct Uranus AND Jupiter opposition Saturn, as well as Uranus entering Aries and Neptune entering Pisces, a total Solar Eclipse July 11, 2010 and a Total Lunar Eclipse December 21, 2010.

That's potentially problematic, because planetary scientists use the number of small impact craters to estimate the age of the lunar surface.

Planetary scientist Heather Meyer, now at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, used data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to...

That perspective helped solve mysteries about the planet and its moons that could not be tackled any other way, scientists said March 19 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Venus» crust is broken up into chunks that shuffle, jostle and rotate on a global scale, researchers reported in two talks March 20 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

About 70 percent of the lunar plains come from either Orientale or one other similar basin, she reported March 22 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conferlunar plains come from either Orientale or one other similar basin, she reported March 22 at the Lunar and Planetary Science ConferLunar and Planetary Science Conference.

One of those researchers, Renee Weber, a lunar and planetary scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, detected hundreds of new moonquakes in the old data.

The picture has emerged over several years, but in work presented last week at the 2018 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, a group of German geochemists reported clinching evidence.

But David Kring of the Lunar and Planetary Institute has modeled Chicxulub's immediate aftermath and shown forest fires were likely more regional — some forests lived, while others died.

Led by Renu Malhotra, a Regents» Professor of Planetary Sciences in the UA's Lunar and Planetary Lab, the team found that the four Kuiper Belt Objects with the longest known orbital periods revolve around the Sun in patterns most readily explained by the presence of a hypothetical «Planet Nine» approximately ten times the mass of Earth.

«We think we have a very good case that there have been lots of cryovolcanoes on Ceres but they have deformed,» said Michael Sori of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and lead author of the new paper.

Paul Spudis of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, principal investigator for radar instruments on both spacecraft, says «we will soon have an abundance of data.»

The structure may be the result of an impact that blasted material off Himalia, suggest Cheng and colleagues in a study presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, earlier this month.

«It's not clear to me what the future for America in human space flight is,» says Paul Spudis of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas.

Isshi Tabe and Dr Jun - ichi Watanabe, of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO) in Japan, set up the Find Flash project following the observation of an impact flash by four Japanese amateur astronomers on 20th August 2010.

And science has progressively become a bigger part of missions run by both the China National Space Administration (CNSA), which governs lunar and planetary exploration, and the China Manned Space Agency.

Unlike natural bridges on Earth, which form largely by erosion from wind and water, these lunar bridges probably formed as a result of an impact in the last billion years, says Mark Robinson, a planetary geologist at Arizona State University in Tempe and principal investigator for LRO's camera.

«This crater and its recently - formed deposits will be a prime target of study for the team as Dawn continues to explore Ceres in its final mapping phase,» said Paul Schenk, a Dawn science team member at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston.

But the announcement was «a little bit premature», rover scientist Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, told researchers at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, on Monday.

Donald Hunten of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona at Tucson claims to know the answer: His observations of falling particles in Titan's atmosphere indicate that the putative ocean consists of a solid pile of «smust.»

«Each mission became more scientifically productive as the program went on,» says Paul Spudis, senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

«This is a curious finding that is understandably going to fascinate a lot of people,» says David Kring, a cosmochemist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas.

A postdoc at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona and an associate research scientist with the Planetary Science Institute, Richmond is frustrated by her struggle for stability.

«What is amazing is you can see this feature while the rim is very likely in front of the line of sight,» said Andreas Nathues, who is in charge of the mission's camera, and presented the images yesterday at the Lunar and Planetary Science conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas.

«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.

«I'm so happy they made the right decision,» says Edgard Rivera - Valentín, a planetary scientist who works jointly at the observatory and the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houstoplanetary scientist who works jointly at the observatory and the Lunar and Planetary Institute in HoustoPlanetary Institute in Houston, Texas.

That holds for Florida State's Humayun, who knew that Black Beauty was going to be special from the moment Agee spoke at the 2012 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

Still, the hunt for nonterran life could be accomplished with a tool familiar in any biology lab, scientists suggested here yesterday at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference and in a paper in press at Astrobiology.

Richardson is presenting the findings on March 20, 2017, at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

The House proposal would also allow NASA to keep all its aging planetary explorers; the White House «had essentially proposed defunding two of the missions — the Opportunity Mars rover and the 5 - year - old Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.»

One of the most interested observers will be H. Jay Melosh, a professor at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and a member of NASA's Deep Impact science team.

The study (pdf) will be presented in March at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas.

NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute / Lunar and Planetary Institute

He gained research experience at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and also acted as a project manager and system engineer on the first UA student team charged with building a miniaturized satellite for space research.

Just a few months into its mission, NASA's newest Mars orbiter is finding an assortment of oddities in the Martian atmosphere, researchers report March 18 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

Planetary scientist Matt Siegler at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and colleagues made the discovery while examining NASA data known to indicate lunar polar hydrogen.

Two studies presented at last March's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, suggest that the best way to arrest Mars's development was to starve it of building material.

Lunar and Planetary Exploration Team director Junichiro Kawaguchi said that the moon base would allow two or three astronauts to stay for up to half a year at a time.

Woida is the SSI downlink engineer for the Phoenix lander, as well as a senior staff engineer at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson.

The south pole also intrigues planetary scientists who believe some of the rocks there may have originated deep within the lunar interior.

«We will be going up to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 1,000 degrees C, in the next soil test happening over the next few days,» says William Boynton, a geochemist at the University of Arizona in Tucson Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and a TEGA co-investigator.

Researchers discovered the pattern when the NASA rover stopped at a set of dunes in Gale crater in late 2015 and early 2016, and they first reported the discovery in March at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

Butler described the new radar - absorbing feature and his volcanic ash theory earlier this week at the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas.