Sentences with phrase «most space scientists»

Long before the first landing on our own moon, most space scientists had discounted the possibility that life existed there.

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In fact many scientists regard the planet - hunting space observatory as one of NASA's most successful scientific ventures.

«About a third of the gamma - ray objects seen by Fermi remained unknown in the most recent catalog, and this result represents an important advance in understanding their natures,» said David Thompson, a Fermi deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«Sometimes they'll happen and you'll have to be somewhere else on Earth to see them,» said Noah Petro, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Most [residents] of the continental United States will be able to see the whole thing.»

«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.

An astonishing discovery is forcing scientists to reconsider whether life can exist in the most extreme places on Earth and in space

Particles from outer space have helped scientists uncover a hidden chamber within Egypt's most famous pyramid, the first such finding in over a century

As recently as the 1960s, most scientists doubted molecules could exist in interstellar space at all — the radiation there was thought to be too harsh for anything much beyond atoms and a few basic free radicals to survive.

The shuttle mission this weekend will also deploy the European Space Agency's Eureca satellite, the world's first reusable satellite for studying the effects of microgravity (see «Making the most of weightlessness», New Scientist, 11 July).

«Over the next few years, major new astronomical facilities exploring other wavelengths will complement Fermi and give us our best look yet into the most powerful events in the universe,» said Julie McEnery, the mission's project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

For now, Stone and other scientists are excited about the robotic explorer's accomplishment on August 25, 2012 — the same date, coincidentally, that the world lost its most famous human space explorer, Neil Armstrong.

A shutdown would have broad impacts on federal science programs, including halting granting activity at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), forcing most government scientists to stay home, and delaying work on NASA space missions.

Rutgers University scientist Georgiy Stenchikov worked with Lioy and others to create the most up - to - date air contaminant model, using data about the region's wind, temperature, and humidity to supplement surface and space - based observations.

Each second, the AMS will encounter 25,000 cosmic rays — high - speed atomic and subatomic particles (some from the sun, some from deep space), the most energetic of which pack hundreds of times as much energy as anything a scientist can whip up in an Earth - based particle accelerator.

«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.

Most significantly, they deleted references to data about dust that was obtained from an unpublished presentation given by scientists from the European Space Agency's Planck space observatory, which was doing similar reseSpace Agency's Planck space observatory, which was doing similar resespace observatory, which was doing similar research.

To celebrate Hubble's 25th anniversary, scientists captured a new look at a star - forming region seen in one of the space telescope's most iconic images.

A space rock has helped scientists characterize, and finally name, the planet's most common mineral.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden released this statement: «Leonard Nimoy was an inspiration to multiple generations of engineers, scientists, astronauts, and other space explorers... As Mr. Spock, he made science and technology important to the story, while never failing to show, by example, that it is the people around us who matter most.

Scientists at UW — Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) observed the eclipse through the eye of one of the world's most advanced weather satellites, GOES - 16.

It takes students behind the scenes of actual space missions and introduces them to engineers and scientists working on some of NASA's most exciting projects.

But the direct measurement of the tiny space - time ripples required the sustained vision and experimental ingenuity of Drever, Thorne and Weiss, spanning most of the last 50 years, as individual scientists and later as intellectual leaders of a team of hundreds of scientists and engineers.

Using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, scientists have made the most precise measurement ever of... view image

A team of University scientists have teamed - up with leading space engineers to create an instrument which could help detect the developed world's most common form of sight loss.

However, until 2006, scientists believed the Milky Way's most recent supernova occurred in the late 1600s [source: Goddard Space Flight Center].

At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, scientists work to validate, host and improve such simulations, and this new information provides the most comprehensive look to date at how the speed of a CME evolves over time.

«Irene did about what was expected from the forecasts,» said atmospheric scientist Eugene McCaul, of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. «The rainfall was probably the biggest threat, partly because most ofthe East and New England have had a very wet August even before Irene's onslaught.»

Mission Centaur was founded by a group of philanthropists, scientists, and engineers to pursue one of humanity's most ambitious and transformational space exploration missions.

A straight - faced updating of the 1950s space monster formula, film stars Charlie Sheen as the rogue scientist who battles E.T.s, uncovers government conspiracies and, most impressive of all, suppresses giggles when confronted with some of the silliest alien effects in memory.

It also has this fun, yet cliched sci - fi story behind the gameplay that has a team of scientists exploring an irregularity in space which holds vast energy and like most stories, things go wrong and you end up on the other side of the universe on a strange planet as you attempt to collect the clues and find a way back home.

It's of the «ignorant scientists foolishly unleash something that they don't understand» school and takes its cues most obviously from Alien, but also the «disaster movie in space» formula of Gravity and even a hint of Predator in its handling of the hostile alien life form.

It's an origin story that lazily follows the most basic beats of a «ragtag team of scientists in space encounter disaster» movie.

There are moments of visual awe to appreciate here and there, so not all of course is a complete disaster, but watching Butler, with his scruffy - looking beard, playing a world - renowned scientist who singlehandedly solved the problem of global warming whilst in space, most definitely is.

One of the best and most widely implemented examples is the GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Support the Environment) project, a global network — supported by, among others, the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — of teachers, students, and scientists studying the atmosphere, water quality, soils, and local flora and fauna.

17 September — 22 October 2009 The Scottish enlightenment scientist Lord Kelvin asked the question about how space could be most efficiently bounded by an enclosing geometry the answer being found in those most elusive and fugitive of things: bubbles and foams which forms nesting cell structure of polyhedra.

Most recently, his work has shifted to encompass more elaborate installations, as when he and his studio completely appropriated the idea of space exploration in Space Program: Mars (2012), a massive installation that transformed the New York Armory into a 55,000 - square - foot demonstration of Sachs's warped vision of a mission to Mars — complete with his own imaginings of the equipment needed to live and work as part of such a mission and live performers who played the roles of scientists and explorers maneuvering within this imagined rspace exploration in Space Program: Mars (2012), a massive installation that transformed the New York Armory into a 55,000 - square - foot demonstration of Sachs's warped vision of a mission to Mars — complete with his own imaginings of the equipment needed to live and work as part of such a mission and live performers who played the roles of scientists and explorers maneuvering within this imagined rSpace Program: Mars (2012), a massive installation that transformed the New York Armory into a 55,000 - square - foot demonstration of Sachs's warped vision of a mission to Mars — complete with his own imaginings of the equipment needed to live and work as part of such a mission and live performers who played the roles of scientists and explorers maneuvering within this imagined realm.

So imagine how pleased I was to be invited to speak at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center this week — where the kindly, soft - spoken and brilliant Willy Wonka of the place, astrophysicistJohn Mather, and his team are building the James Webb Space Telescope — perhaps humanity's most ambitious engineering project — and where scientists use satellites to study climate change in incredible detail.

Rather than my experience with most incubators — something along the lines of coffee shop meets office meets collaborative space — Greentown looks 1 part incubator and 2 parts mad scientist workshop.

One of the most obvious indicators that Earth's climate changes was discovered not by any modern scientist, but by the forefathers of science who first looked to the stars - Kepler, Copernicus and Newton - and realized that Earth's position in space is not fixed.

«greenhouse» gases in the atmosphere, since, as anybody but a climate change advocate nut knows, heat rises, most will then waft back harmlessly up into space, as the earth, as all functions seek equilibrium and homeostasis (those scientists believing that is a function of physiology and biology or entropy in a closed rather than open and single ended variant and changing input system don't know what they are talking about) then shifts back into balance, which is really what it is doing all along, since

James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and arguably the world's most eminent climate scientist, has recently expressed the challenge in the starkest terms:

Most climate scientists agree the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the «greenhouse effect «1 — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.

«For Indonesia burning, it was the most significant event that we've seen during the 15 - year satellite record,» according to Robert Field, a Columbia University research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies who specializes in climate modeling and fire science.

«If the forecasts for a longer dry season hold, this suggests 2015 will rank among the most severe events on record,» said Robert Field, a Columbia University scientist based at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

I bring this up because the most glaring hole in Kramm's head is his repetition of the fact that Akasofu was a protege of Sidney Chapman, a very good space scientist, after whom our space science building is named.

Causes Most climate scientists agree the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the «greenhouse effect «1 — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.

Most scientists are careful not to link specific weather events to climate change trends, but NASA's James Hansen and two colleagues from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University have taken that plunge.

Dr. James Hansen, of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is one of America's most important climate scientists.

This photo of the world's best known and most outspoken climate scientist, James Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, handcuffed and hauled off to jail yesterday may not achieve the iconic stature of the Blue Marble photo, but as a symbol of our times, it's pretty potent.

One of the most venerated scientists of our time, James Hansen is the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a position he's held for three decades.