Sentences with phrase «of planetary habitability»

She also pursues research on organic - inorganic matter interactions, the nature of transitions between greenhouse and icehouse worlds, and the limits of planetary habitability.

James Kasting is one of the pioneers of planetary habitability studies and in this book he provides an insider's view on what makes a planet habitable and how can we find planets suitable for life.

Data and analysis could tell planetary scientists the history of climate change on the Red Planet and provide further information on the history of planetary habitability.

In addition to providing a new perspective into the history of Earth, the discovery is also expected to provide significant insights into the study of planetary habitability.

The other factor that arises from this is that CMEs, of all the various dangerous stellar eminations, appear to be most responsible for planetary atmospheric erosion so anything that mitigates their effect has got to be good in terms of planetary habitability and most of all in M dwarf systems where the «habitable zone» is close to the star and well within the region of synchronous rotation.

NExSS is a new approach to study extrasolar planets: the program's idea is to combine various studies of planetary habitability funded through existing NASA programs into a new framework — one in which the teams collaborate and have influence over the broader, longer - term research directions.

The MAVEN E / PO program will deepen teacher, student, and public understanding of planetary habitability.

The probe will hopefully provide essential data to understanding the nature of planetary habitability.

Potentially habitable planets were the 2013 dream of Abel Mendez, head of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo.

The research team looked at some of these as examples, and studied the evolving nature of planetary habitability over astronomical and geological time.

Here are some more images from SER, all courtesy of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo:

Not exact matches

In November a team led by Washington State University astrobiologist Dirk Schulze - Makuch devised the Planetary Habitability Index, or PHI, a scoring system for distant worlds that measures their suitability for any kind of life, not merely life as we know it.

That estimate comes from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo.

Led by Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, the Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability (ELSAH) mission would fly through a plume to seek out signs of biology lurking within the tiny moon.

Bean and Kempton, meanwhile, are interested in detailing what a statistical census of biologically significant gases such as oxygen, carbon dioxide and ozone could reveal about planetary habitability.

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

«A magnetic field protects the atmosphere of a planet or moon, and the atmosphere protects the surface,» says study coauthor Sonia Tikoo, a planetary scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. Together, the two protect the potential habitability of the planet or moon, possibly those far beyond our solar system.

Planetary habitability is the measure of an astronomical body's potential to develop and sustain life.

The implications for habitability in these systems were the focus of the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting.

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

Astronomer Abel Méndez from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico has put together a Periodic Table of Exoplanets, where each of the 3,700 confirmed exoplanets is slotted into its own discrete category — including planets that could harbor life.

Star A's late spectral type and dim luminosity puts it possibly close to the lower limit of habitability for (multicellular) Earth - type plant and animal life, given the redness of its light and the increased risk of tidal locking from the closeness of the orbit necessary for liquid water on a planetary surface.

I study the statistical properties of extrasolar planetary systems around stars of different masses, and combine these results with numerical simulations to better understand their origins and habitability.

This has strong implications for astrobiology and planetary habitability as any putative life forms near the surface would be exposed to large radiation doses capable of sterilizing the top ~ 20 cm of the Martian subsurface (Simonsen & Nealy 1993; Mileikowsky et al. 2000; Pavlov et al. 2002; Dartnell 2011; Dartnell et al. 2007a, 2007b, 2010).

Until we have detected a larger number of them, the properties and possible habitability of the near-most planetary systems will remain mysterious.»

Thus we have three stars and possible planets at markedly different stages of development, giving us the ability to take a deeper look into flare activity on M - dwarfs as they age, and to assess flare effects on planetary habitability, assuming Barnard's Star and Ross 154 do have planets.

More generally, these two results demonstrate that the longterm habitability (and astronomical observables) of a terrestrial planet can depend on the detailed architecture of the planetary system in which it resides.

Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL): http://phl.upr.edu/home – Description:» PHL is a virtual laboratory dedicated to studies of the habitability of Earth, the Solar System, and extrasoHabitability Laboratory (PHL): http://phl.upr.edu/home – Description:» PHL is a virtual laboratory dedicated to studies of the habitability of Earth, the Solar System, and extrasohabitability of Earth, the Solar System, and extrasolar planets.

The objective of the MAVEN mission EPO program is to engage multiple audiences in the quest to understand Mars» long - term atmospheric losses, giving insight into the history of Mars» atmosphere and climate, liquid water, and planetary habitability.

The objective of the MAVEN mission E / PO program is to engage multiple audiences in the quest to understand Mars» long - term atmospheric losses, giving insight into the history of Mars» atmosphere and climate, liquid water, and planetary habitability.

The National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory and the Planetary Habitability Laboratory of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo joins forces with Red Dots today to learn a bit more about the nearest red - dwarfs and its -LSB-...]

Cornerstone Evaluation Associates LLC is the external research firm charged with carrying out the evaluation activities necessary to determine the effectiveness and impact of MAVEN's Education and Public Outreach (E / PO) effort and its success in achieving its overall goal to «engage multiple audiences in the quest to understand Mars» long - term atmospheric losses, giving insight into the history of Mars» atmosphere and climate, liquid water, and planetary habitability.»

The goal for MAVEN's informal education program is that informal science educators are equipped with the necessary tools to engage Native American youth, girls, or the public in understanding relevant aspects of MAVEN and the history of Mars» atmosphere and climate, liquid water, and planetary habitability.

In addition, planetary habitability - related proposals accounted for a very large fraction of the major proposals that responded to the latest opportunity to join the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

The Planetary Habitability Index is based on «the presence of a stable substrate, available energy, appropriate chemistry, and the potential for holding a liquid solvent,» as the paper's abstract notes.

The recently discovered HD 40307 g is now ranked fourth in a list of potentially habitable planets by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico.

Interestingly enough, they apply their metrics to the provocative Gliese 581 system, finding that both GJ 581c and GJ 581d show an Earth Similarity Index comparable to that of Mars, and a Planetary Habitability Index somewhere between that of Europa and Enceladus.

The prospects for the habitability of M - dwarf planets have long been debated, due to key differences between the unique stellar and planetary environments around these low - mass stars, as compared to hotter, more luminous Sun - like stars.

Considering that ferropericlase is much less viscous, or resistant to flowing, hot, yet solid, mantle rock would flow more easily, possibly having profound effects on volcanism and tectonics at the planetary surface, processes which have a significant impact on the habitability of Earth.

A total of 47 exoplanets and exomoons are potential habitable candidates, according to the online ranking of bodies outside our solar system by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo.

The Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo maintains the Habitable Exoplanet Catalog

On August 29, 2012, the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) revealed that a team of astronomers working with the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Search (HARPS) project had discovered two planets «b» and «c» around the red dwarf star Gliese 163.

(i) origin and evolution of planetary systems; (ii) origins of organic compounds in space; (iii) rock - water - carbon interactions, organic synthesis on earth, and steps to life; (iv) life and habitability; (v) biosignatures as facilitating life detection.

On July 19, 2012, the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) announced that new data and analysis suggest that the most habitable super-Earth known on that date may be Gliese 581 g, among four other super-Earths near or within the habitable zone of their host stars.

In contrast, super-Earths with a similar concentration but larger absolute amount of radioactive heat sources (i.e., uranium and thorium) than Earth would produce more internal heat, more vigorous mantle convection, and faster plate tectonic action involving thinner plates, which may promote planetary habitability with lower mountain ranges but higher volcanic activity and an atmosphere with a greater relative composition of volcanic and lighter gases (Sasselov and Valencia, Scientific American, August 2010; Valencia and O'Connell, 2009; and Valencia et al, 2007).

Marc Kaufman is an experienced journalist, having spent three decades at The Washington Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and is the author of two books on searching for life and planetary habitability.

The key science question for citizens and their representatives is not whether most recent warming is man - made but whether climate change, as Al Gore HAS put it, is a «planetary emergency... that threatens the survival of civilization and the habitability of the Earth.»

So all these other discussions of «what we can or should do» are just a charade, moving the deck chairs on the Titanic, and they will go on and on and on like a Celine Dion song until planetary habitability declines so badly that civilization collapses anyway from our inactions and repeated mistakes.

«The role of GISS in NExSS is to use our climate model to characterize other planetary climates and to help assess their habitability,» said Del Genio.

Their hope is to produce a library of potential planetary climates in the Universe, which can then be used for research on habitability and planet detection.