«We should be looking for habitats and
not habitable environments.
Not exact matches
Typically, the stomach isn't really considered a
habitable environment by a human being.
We went to Mars seeking evidence concerning whether or
not it once had liquid water and a
habitable environment, and I think we've found a definitive answer to that question.
«So far, much of our surface exploration by rovers has focused on ancient terrains and whether or
not the
environments they record were
habitable,» said Sun, lead author on the study and a graduate student working with Milliken.
Since Viking, though, NASA has mostly played it safe, scouring Mars's surface
not for the chemical signatures of life but for ancient
habitable environments — the goal of the Curiosity rover.
While 210 million years ago might
not sound terribly recent, the Arsia Mons site is much younger than the
habitable environments turned up by Curiosity and other Mars rovers.
Regarding the search for extraterrestrial life, the one major
habitable zone in the inner solar system that has
not been sampled at all is the Venusian cloud layer, which in terms of temperature, pressure and gravity is the most Earthlike extraterrestrial
environment in the solar system.