Sentences with phrase «of planetary sciences from»

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.

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Goper reation according to the Divine Word of God Genesis 1 science in CAPS; FIRST CAUSE «In the beginning God» (v1)-- we are given the first cause, causation BIG BANG «created the heavens and the earth» (v1)-- matter and energy created, singularity establishing time and space «Earth dark formless mass «(v 2)-- chaotic sub atomic particles STAR IGNITION «Let there be light» (Day One)-- God was the light or light from reionizing the universe PLANETARY ACCRETION = > EARTH, MOON = > WATER = > ATMOSPERE «Separated the waters to make atmosphere» (Day Two)-- molten earth or water forming atmosphere as cools.

About 70 percent of the lunar plains come from either Orientale or one other similar basin, she reported March 22 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

But modern technological innovations have «blown things open for us,» she said, meaning astrobiology is seeing huge amounts of relevant information come from every direction, from medicine to planetary science.

-- requires input from an incredibly wide range of disciplines, including astrophysics, geology, exoplanet science, planetary science, chemistry and various subfields of biology.

The program brings together researchers from Earth science, planetary science, heliophysics and astrophysics, to pursue specific goals that support the larger pursuit of looking for alien life.

«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..

«It thrills me to no end that people all over the world took a break from their normal activities to go outside and celebrate the interplanetary salute between robot and maker that these images represent,» said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. «The whole event underscores for me our «coming of age» as planetary explorers.»

The stone is also markedly carbon - rich, more so than other known extraterrestrial material aside from comets, the researchers will report in an upcoming issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Black and Mittal, both in UC Berkeley's Department of Earth and Planetary Science, were drawn to the question of what might happen to Phobos because its fate is expected to be so different from that of most other moons in our solar system.

Science has progressed from wild speculation about Earth's planetary neighbors — including how they formed and whether they are inhabited — to a better understanding of our celestial neighborhood

The sale is a protest of plans in President Obama's 2013 budget request to cut 21 percent from NASA's planetary science budget, and 38 percent from its Mars projects

► «[Last] month, Maria Zuber, a planetary geophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, took over from Dan Arvizu as chair of the National Science Board,» which «oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF),» Jeffrey Mervis wrote Tuesday.

This month Maria Zuber, a planetary geophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, took over from Dan Arvizu as chair of the National Science Board.

If NASA is serious about human exploration of Mars, then science measurements from a NeMO are essential, says Alfred McEwen, director of the Planetary Image Research Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson and principal investigator of MRO's HiRISE.

Reviewing this recent work in the Dec. 4 Science, planetary scientists Benjamin Weiss of MIT and Sonia Tikoo of the University of California, Berkeley conclude that this magnetic field originated from flowing material inside the moon.

Part of the love stems from planetary science champions like Representative John Culberson (R - TX), who chairs the spending panel that oversees NASA.

An international research team, led by Dr. Yuji Harada from Planetary Science institute, China University of Geosciences, has found that there is an extremely soft layer deep inside the Moon and that heat is effectively generated in the layer by the gravity of Earth.

The images may fill «one of the missing links» in the chain from embryonic stars to mature planetary systems, says astronomer Steven Beckwith, new director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

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.

Maria Zuber Professor of Geophysics and Planetary Science, MIT Using laser ranging, gravity measurements, and data from spacecraft, Zuber maps surface features and probes the interior of Mars, Venus, Jupiter's moons, and our own moon.

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

«This process may be making a lot of the stuff of life, without any help from things that are alive,» says John Rummel, senior scientist for astrobiology for NASA's Planetary Science Division, who was not involved in the study.

«Hao's breakthrough is in understanding how Mercury is different from the Earth so we could understand Mercury's strongly hemispherical magnetic field,» said Russell, a co-author of the research and a professor in the UCLA College's department of Earth, planetary and space sciences.

Shapiro stresses that it is unclear whether Congress will give further funds to planetary protection, noting that if it doesn't, there is a risk of the money being taken away from space science.

Already the National Science Foundation, through its Planetary Biodiversity Inventories for select groups of organisms has shown that intense, team efforts can speed the discovery and classification of unknown organisms, says meeting organizer Quentin Wheeler from Arizona State.

But at a presentation yesterday at the European Planetary Science Congress in Rome, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a hitch in the latter prospect.

«It's been a mystery since we first got the temperature data from New Horizons,» said first author Xi Zhang, assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.

With entry categories for science / healthcare workers and the under 25s as well as professional and amateur photographers, the competition is an opportunity to stimulate an interest in any area of science, from planetary movements to cellular signalling or more general topics such as physics or the environment, as well as demonstrating artistic flair.

A new study published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science reveals that the iron in at least one of the Gerzeh beads came from outer space.

Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Vanderbilt University, and published online this weekend by the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters in a paper titled, «Iceland is not a magmatic analog for the Hadean: Evidence from the zircon record.»

Heat from the impact that made Occator probably allowed a mixture of ice, salts, and rock in Ceres's interior to become more fluid and rise up to the surface, scientists reported today at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

But some regions may become redder and darker than others because parts of the atmosphere collapse, exposing those spots to more surface - darkening radiation from space, researchers report March 22 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

One problem: That's not possible - or, at least, has never been easily explained - according to a new paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters from a team of scientists at Case Western Reserve University.

Grove and his colleagues, including researchers from the University of Hanover, in Germany; the University of Liége, in Belgium; and the University of Bayreuth, in Germany, have published their results in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

At a planetary science conference last week in Tucson, Arizona, members of the orbiter's camera team presented images that showed arcs of dust emanating from jets — a finding that could help them understand the mechanisms of outgassing.

Scientists from the USGS, the University of Arizona, Durham University (England) and the Planetary Science Institute analyzed narrow, down - slope trending surface features on Mars that are darker than their surroundings, called Recurring Slope Lineae, or RSL.

But much of the rest goes toward goals largely absent from the planetary science community's consensus planning, namely the new push for lunar exploration.

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

Bolstered by the support of Representative John Culberson (R — TX), who oversees House science appropriations, planetary science saw its budget balloon by 13 %, from $ 1.519 billion to $ 1.846 billion.

The study, published online Oct. 5 and appearing in the November issue of Nature Geoscience, comes from Charles Lesher, professor of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Davis and a visiting professor at Aarhus University, and his former PhD student, Eric Brown, now a post-doctoral scholar at Aarhus University.

In all likelihood, entire careers and even subdisciplines of astronomy and planetary science will emerge from studying all the data we can remotely gather from a handful of promising worlds scattered among the nearest stars.

Many of the tough, but also very exciting questions go beyond astrophysics and connect to planetary sciences, geophysics, geochemistry, and atmospheric sciences: fortunately, we could draw on multi-disciplinary expertise from the NASA NExSS group to explore these questions.

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.

«Robotic sample return missions can return higher science value samples by selecting from a larger population of asteroids, and can be accomplished at significantly less cost... Support of ARRM with planetary science resources is not appropriate.»

The UA - led team includes researchers from Tucson - based Planetary Science Institute, geophysicists from the University of Chicago, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson and Catholic University of Chile.

The Center draws its strength from faculty members and students across the University who make up a remarkable intellectual community of scholars, researchers, and teachers of diverse fields including chemistry, earth and planetary sciences, engineering and applied sciences, biology, public health and medicine, government, business, economics, religion, and the law.

Water Emissions - In September of 2002, a team of astronomers (including Cristiano Cosmovici of the Institute for Cosmic and Planetary Science) announced at the Second European Workshop on Exo / Astrobiology that they had detected water «maser» emissions from three of 17 star systems suspected of hosting planets, including Upsilon Andromedae, using the 32 - meter Medicina radio telescope near Bologna.