They plan to bring, in essence, a whole
new planet into view.
Exoplanet hunters are moving beyond simply finding
new planets into trying to know what they look like and whether there's surface or subsurface activity.
Not exact matches
SpaceX is set to launch Wednesday evening from Florida in its latest mission for NASA, launching a
new planet - hunting satellite
into orbit around the Earth.
Doctoroff has steered the company
into costly
new ventures (those tiny
planets).
The
new system could potentially supply the power human crews on the Martian surface would need to energize habitats and run processing equipment to transform resources such as ice on the
planet into oxygen, water and fuel, NASA said.
Previous missions selected by
New Frontiers include
New Horizons, a nuclear - powered probe that flew by Pluto in 2015 and is now going deeper
into the Kuiper Belt; OSIRIS - REx, a robot that's flying out to meet asteroid Bennu and bring a sample of it back to Earth; and the Juno mission, which is looping around Jupiter, recording unprecedented data and breathtaking images of the
planet.
«Thousands of
new small satellites could be put
into low orbit, making access to high - quality internet from any point on our
planet's surface finally possible.
You only want one because every single gadget - slinger on the
planet is marketing them to you as an all -
new, life - changing device that could turn your kitchen
into a futuristic voice - controlled paradise.
Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the
planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows
into a plant bearing thousands of
new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
Rather than playing
into an «us - versus - them» competitive dichotomy, this
new space age hinges on exploring the possibility of economic expansion off -
planet — a notion bolstered by the innate human urge to push the boundaries of what's possible.
then it would put more funding
into diseases that effect everyone on the
planet, not just when it comes walking down the streets of
New York, London or Paris.
Stars, well known, have disappeared,
new ones have come
into view, comets, in their incalculable courses, may run foul of suns and
planets and require renovation under other laws; certain races of animals are become extinct; and, were there no restoring power, all existences might extinguish successively, one by one, until all should be reduced to a shapeless chaos.
There he's imprisoned and forced to fight in the
planet's gladiatorial arena, where he runs
into a few
new allies and one old green friend played by Mark Ruffalo you've probably heard about.
In Part 2, this book attempts, tentatively, to take stock of just where we humans are in the evolution of human culture on this
planet, to explore the significance of entering a
new era that is both global and post-Christian, and to look
into the future.
It is found in the message of some sermons that seem to imply the belief that we can bomb people
into freedom, justice, and liberty, that we can use and abuse this
planet, because it will all burn in the end, and we're going to get a
new earth anyway.
In the total history of life on our
planet he saw our time as the beginning of a great convergence of all men
into a
new and ultimate redemptive unity of mutual enrichment.
«The historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human — at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life - systems, in a time - developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience... The Great Work now, as we move
into a
new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the
planet in a mutually beneficial manner.»
New England Patriots DT Vince Wilfork has been an absolute force in the NFL ever since he broke
into the league; even garnering the nickname «Wilfork
Planet.»
«When you first think about bringing a
new life
into the
planet, you must remember that communication is important, not only with yourself, but your belief system and partner.
New York and 22 other cities were judged on nearly two dozen elements, which fell
into broader categories of «people,
planet and profit.»
NASA's
newest planet - hunting powerhouse, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), leaped
into orbit Wednesday evening (April 18) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will peer
into these cosmic reservoirs to gain
new insights
into the origin and evolution of water and other key building blocks for habitable
planets.
A
new study chronicles how central Asia dried out over the last 23 million years
into one of the most arid regions on the
planet.
«That's been called
into question over the past decade, and many
new ideas have been offered, but the bottom line is that we need to identify a number of newly formed
planets around young stars if we hope to fully understand
planet formation.»
The identification of benzonitrile sheds light on the composition of aromatic material within the interstellar medium — material that will eventually be incorporated
into new stars and
planets.
The Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting 570 kilometers above Earth's atmosphere, has peered deep
into space to witness the formation of
new planets, the evolution of galaxies and the age of the universe.
The production of heavier and heavier elements by subsequent generations of stars transformed the universe
into a place where
new and exotic objects could grow, including a rocky
planet called Earth, and the life - forms that call it home.
Out of the 12 submitted
New Frontiers proposals, nearly half targeted Saturn or its moons, hoping to capitalize on the afterglow of the Cassini mission, which ended in a fiery plunge
into Saturn's atmosphere in September after a wildly successful 13 years around the ringed
planet.
«This is only one
planet, and we don't yet know whether it is actually habitable or not, but it still is an extremely big deal because it will rapidly push the field
into new frontiers,» says Olivier Guyon, a
planet - hunting astronomer at the University of Arizona.
A storm of meteorites slammed
into it, delivering gold and other
new metals to the
planet.
Since Juno started orbiting Jupiter last July, it's revealed many
new, sometimes surprising insights
into the
planet's structure, atmosphere, and magnetic field.
Investigating exoplanet atmospheres can provide
new insight
into how and where
planets form around a star.
Robert Morris, a vice president of service research at IBM, said the company's «Smarter
Planet» strategy, an expansion away from a pure computing business, is «prompting us to move
into new countries and
new fields.»
Seeing the sharp declines in parts of the ocean I have come to know and love reminds me that as we look
into new ways to protect our
planet from climate change, we need to look again at the natural machinery that already works, that developed over four and a half billion years, and do everything we can to restore its functions.
They dramatically accelerated the natural breakdown of exposed rocks, according to a
new study, drawing so much
planet - warming carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere that they sent Earth's climate spiraling
into a major ice age.
«Even using just the first 16 of its 66 antennas, ALMA will already surpass the capabilities of all existing telescopes of its kind, and will provide
new insights
into star formation as well as the origins of galaxies and
planets,» says Paola Andreani, manager of the European ALMA Regional Centre at the European Southern Observatory.
Invasive species or successful colonists or weedy generalists — think kudzu and rats — may be spreading
into new places, keeping the local species tally up, even as the
planet's overall biodiversity is degraded.
A giant asteroid impact in the dwarf
planet's past offers
new insights
into the possibility of an ocean beneath its surface.
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New measurements of atmospheric loss by NASA's MAVEN probe should help scientists determine how a
planet with rushing water and a temperate climate a few billion years ago transformed
into a cold, dry desert.
Researchers investigating whether liquid water could exist on Mars have provided
new insight
into the limits of life on the red
planet.
The aim of the Cassini - Huygens mission, a joint project of NASA, ESA, and Italy's ASI space agency that began in 1997, was to gain
new insights
into the gas
planet Saturn and its moons.
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But now, the model says, Mars's moon Phobos is on a gravity - driven, 70 - million - year course back towards the
planet, a path that will cause it to be ripped apart by tidal forces and spun out
into a
new set of rings.
This
new knowledge sheds light on how individual atoms have assembled
into stars,
planets, and galaxies like our own, and what the future holds for these galaxies.
Researchers who model the early history of the solar system would like to know Phoebe's exact birthplace, but that's unlikely, Dalton notes: The outer
planets migrated during that era and quickly scattered Kuiper Belt objects
into new orbits.
As the average temperature of the
planet goes up and as humanity encroaches on wilderness, pathogens and the organisms they infect are moving
into new habitats, increasing the risk of infecting native hosts.
In 1990 the probes took on a
new duty: moving beyond the
planets and
into interstellar space.
This finding could offer
new insights
into the timeline for giant
planet formation around young stars.
Unlike images that depict the Red
Planet's surface in terms of elevation alone (bright colors from white through red to blue), the new map (muted colors) breaks the planet into nearly 50 types of regions based on their elevation, age, types of rocks, and other fa
Planet's surface in terms of elevation alone (bright colors from white through red to blue), the
new map (muted colors) breaks the
planet into nearly 50 types of regions based on their elevation, age, types of rocks, and other fa
planet into nearly 50 types of regions based on their elevation, age, types of rocks, and other factors.