Sentences with phrase «of planetary sciences»

Encyclopedia of planetary sciences says «Absorption is the conversion of electromagnetic energy to another form of energy through interaction with matter.

«Imagine you have lots and lots of fast - spinning tops, and you give each one a slight nudge,» said Malhotra, a professor of planetary sciences at LPL.

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.

«With MESSENGER, we have now obtained images of the entire planet at high resolution and, crucially, at different angles to the sun that show features Mariner 10 could not in the 1970s,» Steven A. Hauck, II, a professor of planetary sciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and the study's co-author, said in a statement.

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.

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

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.

Not only do scientists need to find a place on Europa's surface that will be worth studying, they also need to find a place to land that won't completely destroy the lander upon touch down, Jim Green, NASA's Director of Planetary Science, told Business Insider.

«We need to understand what made a planet go down the Venus path rather than the Earth path,» says astrobiologist David Grinspoon of the Planetary Science Institute, who is based in Washington, D.C.

«Although we were initially quite skeptical that this planet could exist, as we continued to investigate its orbit and what it would mean for the outer solar system, we become increasingly convinced that it is out there,» says Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science.

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.

«We're delighted with the New Horizons response to the anomaly,» Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science, said in the statement.

«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..

«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.

«It continues to amaze us; every time we look carefully we continue to find that Planet Nine explains something about the solar system that had long been a mystery,» says Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science.

«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.

Jian - Yang Li of the Planetary Science Institute found that Comet ISON's sideways orientation allowed the sun to heat just one hemisphere on the way in, which may explain some of its erratic behavior.

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.

«But we didn't want to fly to Jupiter without a camera,» says Hansen, of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz..

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

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.

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

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.»

Despite their differences, Saturn, Mercury, and the other six planets satisfy the International Astronomical Union's criteria; still, «the debate is going to go on for years,» says Mark Sykes of the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona.

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.

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

Elisabetta Pierazzo of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, and colleagues used a global climate model to study how water vapour and sea salt thrown up from an impact will affect ozone levels for years after the event.

The prospect of samples being returned by Chang» e-5 next year — more than four decades since the last ones were snagged by the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976 — is tremendously exciting for lunar science, says Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science and astrobiology at Birkbeck College in London.

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

Co-authors include Jonathan Aurnou, professor of planetary science and geophysics in UCLA's Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, and Johannes Wicht, a research scientist at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research.

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

Studying super-Earths is a particularly fruitful area of planetary science, says David Latham of the CfA, who was not involved in the HARPS work.

One of the more vocal critics is Mark Sykes, director of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.

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.

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

Science spoke with director Ridley Scott; Andy Weir, whose debut novel provided the tale; and Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science and an adviser on the film, to find out how they made movie magic while staying largely faithful to the science — leaving out a raging dust storm and a few other moments of implausibility.

Equally disheartening are cuts to basic research and analysis, says Mark Sykes, director of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.

The goal, says the conference's co-organizer Mark Sykes, director of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., is to teach the public that science is a process of constant revision and refinement.

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).

«If we end up selecting two, then we wouldn't put out a call for the next Discovery as we originally had planned, which is in 2017,» said Jim Green, NASA director of planetary science, during a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council's planetary science subcommittee.

«These fabulous observations of ISON are unique and set the stage for more observations and discoveries to follow as part of a comprehensive NASA campaign to observe the comet,» said James L. Green, NASA's director of planetary science.

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

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.

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.

SARA SEAGER is professor of planetary science and physics at MKI and a member of the TESS team.

Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA.

The planet that neighbors Earth «underwent a major climate change in its past,» said Jim Green, director of the planetary science division at NASA headquarters.