Sentences with phrase «of planetary science»

Two fields of planetary science took serious hits with today's announcement of the competition results.

The meeting will cover the entire scope of the planetary sciences.

This meeting already has an exciting lineup of speakers and events, so join us for what is sure to be a fantastic week of presentations from all areas of of planetary science.

He is currently working in several international science and engineering projects in the field of planetary sciences.

Mark Sykes, director of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, shares these concerns.

According to another Dawn co-investigator, Mark Sykes, the director of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, these sorts of unexpected, counterintuitive findings suggest there's much more to learn about the bright spots.

«For the first time, we have used a geophysical method to determine the internal structure of Enceladus, and the data suggest that indeed there is a large, possibly regional ocean about 50 kilometers below the surface of the south pole,» says David Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetary bodies.

Fred Ciesla, an associate professor of planetary science at the University of Chicago, says the findings may reclassify chondrites, a class of meteorites that are thought to be examples of the original material from which planets formed.

Asked about the situation, Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters says only, «We're continuing to study our options for long - range support of communication for our rovers and landed assets on Mars.»

«But Comet ISON was found when it was far from the sun, six times Earth's distance, so we've had a lot of time to do observational planning,» says Jian - Yang Li of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz..

Recent data «encourages those who are optimistic about life in the universe,» said astrobiologist David Grinspoon of the Planetary Science Institute at a 12 February news conference.

The cost of JWST «is obviously a factor» in the ExoMars problems, says planetary scientist Mark Sykes of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.

«Whether pure water or salty water, it would all behave similarly in terms of sediment transport,» says team member Rebecca Williams of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.

Elisabetta Pierazzo of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, and colleagues used a global climate model to study the effect of an impact.

«While discussions whether to approve this extended mission will take place in the larger context of the planetary science portfolio, we expect it to be much less expensive than the prime mission while still providing new and exciting science.»

On May 23, a session titled «New Developments of Planetary Science with ALMA» attracted a near - capacity crowd.

About Blog iPLEX is interested in sharing the fascinating world of planetary science with local and national communities and schools.

«The history of planetary science shows us that we develop theories and models, and nature does not read our papers,» McKay said.

Alan Stern: What my paper suggests is that it may be related to a fairly recent discovery of planetary science that most of the ocean worlds in our own solar system are interior to planets as opposed to our own planet where we have the oceans on the outside.

But Mark Sykes, president of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, and chair of NASA's Small Bodies Assessment Group, remains a big fan of asteroids.

But according to a second model presented at the LPSC by David O'Brien of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, Ceres doesn't have enough muscle to drive these eruptions.

Charley Lineweaver researches planetary science, astrobiology and cosmology at the Australian National University, Canberra, and is the convener of its Planetary Science Institute

«It's almost certainly right,» says Joe Spitale of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, who also did not participate in the research.

In the universe of planetary science, most researchers have geophysics or astronomy degrees.

When at sea, we were treated to some 25 sessions with a diverse faculty, including Larry Cahill, neurobiologist at the University of California, Irvine; Robert Fovell, atmospheric and oceanic scientist at U.C.L.A.; James Gillies, head of communications at CERN; Peter Smith, professor emeritus of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona; and David Stevenson, planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology.

Bland and Bryan Travis of the Planetary Science Institute, who is based in Los Alamos, N.M., ran computer models of how the mud balls would evolve.

Over the years, the thousands of samples gathered by ANSMET have greatly increased our knowledge of planetary science.

«Let's take a picture,» Asmin «Oz» Pathare of the Planetary Science Institute says into his walkie - talkie, a hundred yards away from us.

The dust devils increase in frequency around 1 p.m. Steve Metzger of the Planetary Science Institute drives into their path in an ’83 Chevy pickup laden with sensors to track their internal wind speeds and other characteristics.

The interpretation is robust, says geologist Joseph Michalski, also of the Planetary Science Institute.

The team, led by Alexis Rodriguez of the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona, looked at snapshots taken from three Mars orbiters.

To figure out how humans might be able to survive on the distant moon far in the future, Amanda Hendrix of the Planetary Science Institute and Yuk Yung at the California Institute of Technology analysed potential energy sources.

Planetary fluvial geologist Rossman Irwin of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, is more skeptical of the delta evidence.

The B612 Foundation, which includes two former NASA astronauts, Edward Lu and Rusty Schweickart, and a team of planetary science veterans, now intends to raise $ 450 million to launch a mission by July 2018.

Green says these themes were identified as fundamental areas of inquiry in the National Academies» 2010 decadal review of planetary sciences.

All in all, thanks to Hubble, the frontiers of planetary science are rolling back week by week.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the NEOWISE mission for NASA's Near - Earth Object Observation Program of its Planetary Science Division in Washington.

One committee member, Clark Chapman of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, is insisting that his name is removed from the report.

Now our Enceladus discoveries have changed the direction of planetary science.

In October 1999 in Padua, Italy, Dr. Chapman received the 1999 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication of Planetary Science (awarded by the Division for Planetary Science of the American Astronomical Society).

Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker (L), project manager Earl Maize, and NASA's director of planetary science Jim Green (R), addressed a news conference at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Sept. 13, 2017, as NASAs Cassini spacecraft nears the end of its 20 - year mission.

Jim Green, NASA's head of planetary sciences, announced Monday that the Jet Propulsion Lab will next study a flagship mission to Uranus or Neptune, or both, as a way of filling that gap.

In addition to abstracts on a variety of planetary science topics, we are soliciting abstracts for Education and Public Engagement posters.

Jupiter is one of the outer planets (beyond the asteroid belt) and members of the planetary science community who focus on that region of the solar system have been arguing for a new «outer planets flagship» mission for years.

-- weaving together activities, resources, news, and ideas that scientists, faculty, teachers, clubs, and organizations can use to engage audiences in exploring the big questions of Planetary Science.

He served as the associate director of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory from 1978 through 1980 and was an associate professor of planetary sciences from 1978 through 1983.

(Though other theories suggest that it might hurl space rocks at us, so it also could be the antihero of planetary science.)

Bill Nye found friends of planetary science on both sides of the aisle in DC.

The Solar System Exploration Division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center hosted two booths at the event, both organized by Andrea Jones of the Planetary Science Institute and NASA GSFC.