Sentences with phrase «of habitable environments»

The focus of JUICE is to characterise the conditions that may have led to the emergence of habitable environments among the Jovian icy satellites, with special emphasis on the three ocean - bearing worlds, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto.

At Kimberley, the scientists hope to wield the rover's drill if they find the right kind of rock that could yield signs of habitable environments.

The potential for such activity in this small ocean world has made Enceladus a prime target for future exploration in search of habitable environments in the solar system beyond Earth.

Phyllosilicates are clay - like minerals, formed in the presence of a neutral - pH water, and are indicative of a habitable environment.

Not exact matches

«There was a huge potential for a habitable environment here, and there's a lot of promise for [microscopic] fossils, perhaps, or some biological signals,» Chris Okubo, an astrogeologist at USGS and an author of the new maps, told Business Insider.

One possible strategy for making Mars habitable over the long term is to «terraform» it — manipulate its environment so, in the simplest terms, the planet warms up, ice turns into water, and plants can be introduced, which will convert the atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen, with the goal of creating a stable and breathable atmosphere.

No Heaven, no pergatory, no limbo, no hell... just each waking day on this planet that you should be greatful and helping your fellow man / woman survive and and improve their environment, while looking for a way off of this rock and to another habitable one; before planet Earth is hit by huge asteroids, swallowed by an expanding sun or rendered inhabitable by our own foolish actions.

Whereas most people have a basic understanding of the human body (and hence appreciate the need for hygiene, a healthy diet, and exercise), Philander is distressed that most «people have no idea why the earth is habitable and see no connection between the way they live and the state of the environment.»

«If we survey a large number of planets with less detailed measurements, we can still get a statistical sense for how prevalent habitable environments are in our galaxy.

Predicting our climate change future, and particularly impacts on the natural systems responsible for making this planet a habitable environment for mankind, is clearly one of the most challenging problems of our time.

On some missions, such as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover (now deep into its third Earth year seeking signs of habitable conditions on the Red Planet), the excess heat from the MMRTG can also be used to keep spacecraft systems warm in cold environments.

These planets in the habitable zones of their stars, while able to support liquid water on their surfaces, develop in dry environments and need to have ice sent in from farther out.

The discovery of organic compounds adds to the growing body of evidence that Ceres may have once had a habitable environment.

I prefer to think of it as a kind of graffiti that makes an environment more habitable and socially connected.

In another paper in the same issue of Science Express, Grotzinger — who studies the history of Mars as a habitable environment — and colleagues examined the physical characteristics of the rock layers in and near Yellowknife Bay.

«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.

Many researchers are content to follow NASA's lead as it cautiously moves from «following the water» in search of likely habitable or once - habitable environments on Mars to «following the carbon» — that is, looking for chemical traces of ancient life.

Europa's global ocean is the site of complex chemical interactions, suggesting a possibly habitable environment.

Orbiting Ceres since 2015, the Dawn spacecraft picked up hints of organic material on the dwarf planet's surface, researchers reported in February — a sign that Ceres may have once had a habitable environment.

«The ingredients for life are plentiful, and we now know that habitable environments are plentiful,» said Associate Professor Lineweaver, from the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Research School of Earth Sciences.

There are several subspecies which occur in different world regions, including also the ubiquitous domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus), which has been introduced to every habitable continent and most of the world's larger islands, and has become feral in many of those environments.

The Martian volcano Arsia Mons may have been home to one of the most recent habitable environments yet found on the Red Planet, geologists say.

With a mass and size approximately one - third that of the Sun, and an abundance of heavy elements less than 10 percent solar, Kapteyn's Star was, as most red dwarfs, historically seen as a poor candidate for hosting any planets and habitable environments.

[For the Record, 1:40 p.m. PST, April 3: An earlier version of this post incorrectly indicated that Enceladus would need complex organic molecules to be considered a potentially habitable environment.

The success of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity in finding tell - tale signs of past water at its Meridiani Planum landing site has left some researchers believing the region could have once been a habitable, albeit still hostile, environment.

Cassini did the groundwork, discovering subsurface oceans and habitable environments on what was once thought to be a collection of dead and barren moons.

Jupiter's icy moon Europa is a major target of astrobiology research in light of the possibility that it offers a habitable environment in the Solar System.

This discovery sharpens the distinction between habitable and uninhabitable planets and illuminates the importance of environment in the formation of planets.

«This discovery could be a significant piece in the puzzle of finding habitable environments, places that are conducive to life,» said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

«This discovery could be a significant piece in the puzzle of finding habitable environments, places that are conducive to life,» Zurbuchen stated during the news conference.

Liquid water is essential for life as we know it, and understanding the distribution and behavior of liquid water beyond Earth can help scientists understand where to search for habitable environments, both within our Solar System and beyond.

-- to explore the Solar System beyond Mars to understand how giant planets and their moons form and evolve, to search for habitable environments on and within moons (like Enceladus, Europa and Titan), and to examine the farthest bodies in the solar system for clues to the early history of the solar system.

«Really, the big thing in this package of six papers is that we've accomplished the mission goal of finding a habitable environment,» Caltech's John Grotzinger, the principal investigator for Curiosity's $ 2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, told NBC News.

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.

With water, heat and organics, the Enceledean ocean is considered to be one of the potentially most habitable environments elsewhere in the Solar System.

«The global nature of Enceladus» ocean and the inference that hydrothermal systems might exist at the ocean's base strengthen the case that this small moon of Saturn may have environments similar to those at the bottom of our own ocean,» said Jonathan Lunine, an interdisciplinary scientist on the Cassini mission at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. «It is therefore very tempting to imagine that life could exist in such a habitable realm, a billion miles from our home.»

The Great Courses has partnered with the Smithsonian to produce a vivid exploration of life in this fascinating space — the environment that accounts for 99 percent of Earth's habitable space.

Your rover will land with more precision and cover more rugged ground than any other, and it will have the best chance so far of capturing the history of water flow and the possibility of ancient habitable environments on Mars.

«If those plumes are connected with the subsurface water ocean we are confident exists under Europa's crust, then this means that future investigations can directly investigate the chemical makeup of Europa's potentially habitable environment without drilling through layers of ice.

In this Astronomy Talk, Dr. Carl Pilcher, Interim Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, will help us study the four billion - year evolution of life and our planet to consider how habitable environments and life itself might arise elsewhere in the Universe.

Our observations reveal the planetary worlds of our solar system, and increase our knowledge what / how is habitable planetary environment and its evolution?

Indeed, the presence of these deposits, and the water - bearing minerals buried within, could contain a record of an ancient, habitable environment on Mars.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- The slopes of a giant Martian volcano, once covered in glacial ice, may have been home to one of the most recent habitable environments yet found on the Red Planet, according to new research led by Brown University geologists.

Museum researcher Dr Joe Michalski says NASA discovery points to Martian environments that could be habitable by certain kinds of bacteria.

Explore a variety of biomes, from the lush wetlands environment to the much less habitable desert and arctic biomes.

The installation «Birdcage 2017» takes us back to the notion of habitable architecture, but with the focus on recreating an environment of confinement.

That your environment can cause a variability of multiples of this value at the edge of the habitable range only adds to that demand.)