Sentences with phrase «many planetary scientists»

«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

«No one expected a mountain on Ceres, especially one like Ahuna Mons,» Christopher Russell, a planetary scientist who leads the Dawn mission, said in the release.

The robot's main camera, called JunoCam, will beam back new images of the Great Red Spot around July 14, Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute and the Juno mission's leader, said in an email to Business Insider.

Scientists have proposed many theories over the decades, including planetary scientist, Alan Stern, who has the latest idea.

«This is evidence of a big shakeup early on in the solar system's formation,» Glenn Orton, a co-author of the new study and a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Business Insider.

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...

said planetary scientist Jeff Cuzzi of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. «To me, this answers the question of what makes the rings red: It's organics.»

Before the International Astronomical Union announced the names April 11, scientists referred to Charon's features with nicknames like «brown mountain» or «yellow mountain,» says Rita Schulz, a planetary scientist who heads the union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.

«What's new and exciting here is that these ice sheets start quite shallowly,» says planetary scientist Colin Dundas of the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Ariz..

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 yellow Humvee was making slow progress across a frigid, otherworldly landscape when planetary scientist Pascal Lee felt the rover tilt backward.

«There's a perception that Venus is a very difficult place to have a mission,» says planetary scientist Darby Dyar of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. «Everybody knows about the high pressures and temperatures on Venus, so people think we don't have technology to survive that.

«This is a pretty secure detection,» says Ralph Lorenz, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md..

But ice shouldn't be stable at Ceres's surface, says Andy Rivkin, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Previous studies have suggested that electric fields generated during the early stages of a sandstorm would have that effect, but nobody had made field measurements to support the idea, says Francesca Esposito, a planetary scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Naples, Italy.

«Some of the numbers we've been operating on date back decades, and it'd be great to revisit them,» says Sarah Johnson, a planetary scientist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C..

But some planetary scientists aren't losing too much sleep over the debate.

«A history of Venus is stored in the atmosphere,» says Larry Esposito, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

«It will be a plume - sampling extravaganza,» says planetary scientist William McKinnon at Washington University in St Louis.

But other planetary scientists, including Jonathan Lunine of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, note that JWST will also use its infrared eyes to peer at planets both inside the Solar System and beyond.

«Agee and his collaborators have thrown open the door to a whole new part of Mars,» says planetary scientist Munir Humayun at Florida State University in Tallahassee, who was not involved in the study.

To Alberto Fairén, a planetary scientist at Cornell University, that makes no sense.

Many planets and moons harbour bizarre bodies of water — but that alone won't make them as life - friendly as Earth, say two planetary scientists

The cost of JWST «is obviously a factor» in the ExoMars problems, says planetary scientist Mark Sykes of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.

Some US planetary scientists are concerned that NASA's inability to provide a rocket for the 2016 ExoMars launch is a sign of a bigger problem.

In 2004, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft first began orbiting Saturn and studying its moon Titan, Brigham Young University planetary scientist Jani Radebaugh was puzzled.

But planetary scientists reviewing data from the Galileo orbiter mission have recently found something almost comfortingly familiar: anvil - shaped clouds that seem to be Jovian thunderheads.

First, planetary scientists suspect that cyanide was abundant on early Earth, deposited here by comets or created in the atmosphere by ultraviolet light or by lightning (once the atmosphere became oxygen rich, 2.5 billion years ago, the process would have stopped).

Planetary scientist Bill Farrell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and colleagues will argue in Geophysical Research Letters that we shouldn't give up the search just yet, however.

While there are no formal plans for a NASA mission to Europa yet, it's a top priority for many researchers working for the organization, says planetary scientist Bob Pappalardo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Pappalardo has also introduced a proposal that would send planetary scientists to Beauchamp's spring to develop strategies and test equipment for a Europa mission.

Many planetary scientists had thought Venus's surface was geologically dead.

Horst Uwe Keller, a planetary scientist at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany, and the former principal investigator for the Rosetta camera, says that it is too early to say whether the dinosaur eggs are truly fundamental building blocks.

For those who prefer a more macho approach, planetary scientist Steven Chesley of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has proposed a companion mission called ISIS.

A new mission would likely head for Encke, a comet described as «evolved, degassed, used - up, and as old as possible» by Contour mission leader Joseph Veverka, a planetary scientist at Cornell University.

Planetary scientists noticed striking similarities between the frigid conditions of Ellesmere Island and those of Jupiter's ice - covered moon, Europa.

If his plan is approved, the site would provide planetary scientists with a working model of what to look for on the moon's surface.

«But the mechanism on Saturn has to be different,» says Caltech planetary scientist Andrew Ingersoll, a member of the Cassini imaging team.

«Intuitively, it's hard to imagine that sunlight could possibly have this effect,» says planetary scientist Richard Binzel of MIT, who nonetheless finds the work convincing.

The craters may be up to 4 billion years old, from a time when asteroids were heavily bombarding the early Solar System, says team member William McKinnon, a planetary scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — Planetary scientists who dream of probing for microbes on Jupiter's icy moon Europa are already studying similar settings on Earth.

«It's like a little bit of everything,» says Carly Howett, a planetary scientist and New Horizons team member at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

From Identical to Evil Planetary scientists still have to sort out exactly how Venus reached the point of no return.

Planetary scientists have previously invoked tectonics — the cracking of a body by forces in the crust — as a way of opening up planetary interiors and allowing resurfacing.

In a paper just published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, planetary scientist Konstantin Batygin of the California Institute of Technology claims this equation can also be used to understand the emergence and behavior of self - gravitating astrophysical disks.

Planetary scientists have overcome a key problem in explaining the emergence of the solar system's behemoths — Jupiter and Saturn.

Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, also wants to see more evidence.

Planetary scientist Margaret Kivelson of the University of California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues found that Ganymede's internal field shuddered on its axis by 3.6 angular degrees as Jupiter's field rocked back and forth.

Such refuges may be the first place to look for life on Europa, says planetary scientist Richard Greenberg of the University of Arizona, Tucson.