Sentences with phrase «of planetary evolution»

The research team will be calculating the energy budget for Jupiter, Saturn and Saturn's moon Titan, because it will impact our understanding of planetary evolution and climate.

Lecture Rod Swenson on The Law of Maximum Entropy Production, Autocatakinetics and the Evolutionary Epistemology of Planetary Evolution from Cells to Global Economies, AI and the Explosion of Social Media with introduction by Cheyney Thompson

«Here we are today, with 4.5 billion years of planetary evolution, and because the Earth has such a dynamic interior, because of the water we've preserved on the planet, [volcanism] just wipes out its past,» Grove says.

Ordinary objects of our experience, such as rocks and tables, are composed of many strands of enduring objects; and the story of planetary evolution focuses on the careers of incredibly complex organisms which may be analyzed into societies with sub-societies of many kinds.

Not exact matches

Some of the events that came from that progression were stelalr and planetary formation, formation of complex molecules and evolution.

Clearly in face of so appalling a discovery the psychic mechanism of evolution would come to a stop, undermined and shattered in its very substance, despite all the violent tuggings of the chain of planetary in - folding.

This «cooking» process was of utmost importance because it produced the chemicals necessary for the evolution of planetary bodies such as our earth, and thus it made possible also the eventual appearance of life and human beings.

I maintained that, contrary to the commonly expressed or tacitly accepted view, the era of active evolution did not end with the appearance of the human zoological type: for by virtue of his acquirement of the gift of individual reflection Man displays the extraordinary quality of being able to totalize himself collectively upon himself, thus extending on a planetary scale the fundamental vital process which causes matter, under Certain conditions, to organize itself in elements which are ever more complex physically, and psychologically ever more centrated.

The events we are witnessing and undergoing are unquestionably bound up with the general evolution of terrestrial life; they are of planetary dimensions.

But the concept of biological evolution inevitably led to a profound reshaping of planetary values.

But briefly, it is this: «orthodox» scientific uneasiness about the role of purpose or final causation in planetary evolution has its grounds partly in the fact that over the centuries most people who have tried to describe the role of purpose on Earth haven't known «what» they were talking about.

The new findings are observational evidence supporting the idea that icy bodies are also present in other planetary systems, and have survived throughout the history of the star's evolution.

The year's biggest stories in life sciences, including: how to rewind evolution, the Great Pyramid's chamber of secrets and the planetary mega-organism

The menagerie of exoplanets has provided new natural laboratories for scientists to test out models of planetary formation and evolution.

«If breakdown weathering occurs on the moon, then it has important implications for our understanding of the evolution of planetary surfaces in the solar system, especially in extremely cold regions that are exposed to harsh radiation from space,» says coauthor Timothy Stubbs of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

The moon appears to be a tranquil place, but modeling done by University of New Hampshire and NASA scientists suggests that, over the eons, periodic storms of solar energetic particles may have significantly altered the properties of the soil in the moon's coldest craters through the process of sparking — a finding that could change our understanding of the evolution of planetary surfaces in the solar system.

This atomic - scale approach holds great potential in establishing a more accurate chronology of the formation and evolution of planetary crusts.

With data from Voyager, Galileo, New Horizons, Hubble and now Juno, we have a better understanding of the composition and evolution of this iconic feature,» said Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science.

Research Topic 1 Origin and Evolution of Planetary Systems Research Topic 2 Origins of Organic Compounds in Space Research Topic 3 Rock - Water - Carbon Interactions, Organic Synthesis on Earth, and Steps to Life Research Topic 4 Life and Habitability Research Topic 5 Biosignatures as Facilitating Life Detection

It's clear now that these molecules form readily in stellar nurseries, providing insights into the chemical evolution of planetary systems, including our own.»

Such diversity of size and internal temperature would not hamper planetary evolution if there was self - regulating mantle convection, Korenaga said.

Then researchers could use the detailed seismic picture of the moon's interior to understand better the evolution of a planetary body assembled from the vaporous debris of a giant impact on the still - forming Earth.

Thinking small has enabled an international team of scientists to gain new insight into the evolution of planetary building blocks in the early solar system.

The results, published July 30 in Nature, provide insights into the moon's early history, its orbital evolution, and its current orientation in the sky, according to lead author Ian Garrick - Bethell, assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.

The paper is titled «Processing of meteoritic organic materials as a possible analog of early molecular evolution in planetary environments,» and is co-authored by Pizzarello, geologist Lynda Williams, NMR specialist Gregory Holland and graduate student Stephen Davidowski, all from ASU.

By extending this new method to various solar - type protostars using ALMA, the diversity and generality of the chemical evolution from interstellar matter to planetary matter will be unveiled within the next few years.

It offers astronomers a front - row seat to the evolution of a young planetary system and it remains one of the closest, youngest and best - studied examples today.

Having so many worlds in one system — and so many planets that spill their secrets via transits — may provide an exceptional test bed for theories of planetary formation and evolution.

«Magnetic fields provide crucial information about the interiors and evolution of planets, so it is gratifying that our experiments can test — and in fact, support — the thin - dynamo idea that had been proposed for explaining the truly strange magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune,» said Raymond Jeanloz, co-author on the paper and professor in Earth & Planetary Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Mars Exploration Program studies Mars as a planetary system in order to understand the formation and early evolution of Mars as a planet, the history of geological processes that have shaped Mars through time, the potential for Mars to have hosted life, and the future exploration of Mars by humans.

Alfonso's research interests are broad, spanning from planetary habitability, geology and geochemistry, to the origin and evolution of life on Earth.

This chronology gives a list of known (successful and unsuccessful) lunar and planetary missions including a few historical missions which were instrumental in the development and evolution of space exploration.

We will carry out a series of numerical investigations to understand how organics and volatiles are incorporated into planetary building blocks and then trace the dynamical evolution of these building blocks throughout the period of planetary assembly.

The belt contains essential information about the planetary formation processes, including both the «cold disk» that harbors the objects that are thought to formed in situ with the whole planetary system, and the «hot / scattered disk» that is the refuge of objects that are dynamically scattered into it during the dynamical evolution of the inner solar system.

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Three teams of astronomers have made use of SPHERE, an advanced exoplanet - hunting instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO's Paranal Observatory, in order to shed light on the enigmatic evolution of fledgling planetary systems.

The study of planetary atmospheres other than the Earth's, and in particular the study of the role of plasma - neutral interactions in their evolution, could contribute to our understanding of the long - term space weather (referred to also as space climate) effects and finally the origins of life itself (Yamauchi & Wahlund 2007).

These studies are aimed at understanding the physical mechanisms that govern star formation and how the evolution of the gaseous component of disks impacts the resulting planetary system architectures.

Observations of the planets, satellites, and small bodies in the Solar system provide indispensable information about planet formation and evolution processes that remain unattainable for other planetary systems.

The superior sensitivity of the latest generation of ground - based instruments has allowed astronomers to discover a wealth of exoplanets (most of them in multi-planetary systems) around red dwarfs, while overturning our conventional notions and expectations regarding planetary formation and evolution processes around metal - poor stars.

I apply numerical models to investigate the physical and chemical evolution of planetary materials, ranging from the small dust grains suspended in protoplanetary disks to the many kilometer - scale objects which accrete together to form planets.

Explore the physical characteristics and inner workings of the Sun and then learn all about Stars and Stellar Evolution in this video of class 12 of Bruce Betts» Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.

The current SDSS - III project is focussing on three areas: dark energy and cosmological parameters; the structure, dynamics, and chemical evolution of the Milky Way; and the architecture of planetary systems.

Kevin's research focuses on adaptive optics imaging of extrasolar planets and disks to provide constraints on planetary evolution models.

This new technique provides a way to measure the true mass of a planet since both light from the star and the planet are detected, which can provide more accurate insights about the planet's formation and the evolution of its planetary system.

Her main research interests are in star formation and the formation and evolution of planetary systems.

The MIPS instrument team has documented the incidence, properties, and evolution of planetary debris disks around nearby stars.

The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University will carry out fundamental research on the origin and evolution of astrophysical structures, from planetary systems to the universe as a whole.

With data from Voyager, Galileo, New Horizons, Hubble and now Juno, we have a better understanding of the composition and evolution of this iconic feature,» Jim Green, the director of planetary science at the agency, added in a statement.

-- If the central star of a planetary system burns out, there will be no further evolution of life on the planets that have orbits around it.