Sentences with phrase «on habitability»

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How I wish that the global warming deniers were right Are you prepared to take a 50 - 50 gamble on the habitability of the planet?

Are you prepared to take a 50 - 50 gamble on the habitability of the planet?

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.

Protecting plant and animal diversity — Humans have an enormous influence on the habitability of the planet for the millions of other species with which we share it.

How critical orbit is on habitability depends on feedbacks.

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.

This week, walk like an elephant — very far, with seeds in your guts, Cassini's mission to Saturn wraps up with news on the habitability of its icy moon Enceladus, and how our shoes manage to untie themselves with Online News Editor David Grimm.

Researchers agree that the bison data offer only an upper limit on the habitability of the ice - free corridor; it's possible that people could have used it before the bison.

This work further expands the range of factors that may bear on the habitability of other worlds.»

«Mars mission sheds light on habitability of distant planets.»

Not exact matches

In an attempt to dispel this shadow Jeans calculated that the Earth has many millions of years of habitability ahead of it, so that Man is still only on the threshold of his existence.

At the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Dec. 13, 2017, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Brain described how insights from the MAVEN mission could be applied to the habitability of rocky planets orbiting other stars.

This includes places like parts of the eastern Pacific Ocean where small animals like nematodes and specially adapted fish live on the fringes of habitability, subsisting in waters where oxygen concentrations can be only about 1 % of normal surface water levels.

And that entropy will almost certainly have strong feedback effects on their planet's habitability, as we are already beginning to see here on Earth.»

With its sophisticated on - board chemistry lab, Curiosity is hunting for more robust signs of habitability, including organic compounds — the carbon - based building blocks of life as we know it.

«Given the concerns about our own environment and climate change, finding an exoplanet that might experience the runaway greenhouse much sooner than we will made us reflect on the Earth's near - and long - term prospects for habitability,» Jenkins says.

«Cosmic rays can have a number of effects on the climate and habitability of planets,» Johnson says.

Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have recently raised doubts about water on — and thus potential habitability of — frequently cited exoplanets that orbit red dwarfs, the most common stars in the Milky Way.

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

This «habitability index» is based on estimates of a planet's average temperature and size.

«It's linked to how well we know the composition of the planets early on, especially with regards to habitability,» Pontoppidan says.

«On Mars you can not look for life with the tools that have been looking for habitability of that planet,» she argues.

And while Curiosity's mission does not include life detection, the rover is expected to unearth clues about the habitability of the environments on the Red Planet, said John Grotzinger, MSL project scientist at JPL.

This discovery, and other observations made by the Penn State team, provide insight into the complexity of weather and atmospheric composition on exoplanets, and may someday be useful for gauging the habitability of Earth - size planets.

«What adds to Gale's appeal is that, organics or not, the site holds a diversity of features and layers for investigating changing environmental conditions, some of which could inform a broader understanding of habitability on ancient Mars.»

To date, most missions to Mars have been trained on its surface, seeking geological and chemical evidence of habitability.

Based on humankind's admittedly limited experience, habitability seems to mean a small world — a terrestrial planet rather than a gas giant like Jupiter or Saturn — orbiting its star at a comfortable «Goldilocks» distance that allows water to persist in liquid form.

They focused on two basic properties needed for habitability: a planet's mass and its surface temperature.

Understanding the origin and fate of methane on these bodies will provide crucial clues to the processes that shape the formation, evolution and habitability of terrestrial worlds in this solar system and possibly in others.

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

After two hours of hike up on a rocky trail in the Italian Alps, finally I stand at an elevation just above 2,500 meters, staring at a breathtaking and unique mountain range, the Dolomites, that holds an exciting clue to the habitability of our planet.

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.

«At Europa, it seems the processes that could permit habitability may be going on now.»

From the DistantEarths blog of Daniel Apai After two hours of hike up on a rocky trail in the Italian Alps, finally I stand at an elevation just above 2,500 meters, staring at a breathtaking and unique mountain range, the Dolomites, that holds an exciting clue to the habitability of our planet.

«This will ensure that Cassini can not contaminate any future studies of habitability and potential life on those moons.»

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.

«On the coevolution of life and planet habitability» by Regis Ferriere, Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UofA and Ecole Normale Superieure & Antonin Affholder, grad student, School of Biology, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

The Phoenix lander, on course to reach Mars on May 25, will assess habitability of a shallow subsurface environment of icy soil farther north than any earlier mission has landed.

Habitability on Mars Space Stations Research and Laboratories Applied to Climate Change and Droughts, Prof. Julio Rezende, PhD

An ANN that could predict the habitability of vast numbers of planets, therefore, could save scientists time and help them focus on only the most promising targets.

Computer models reveal that exoplanets with very saline oceans could have circulation patterns opposite to that on Earth, resulting in dramatic warming of their polar regions, possibly extending their range of habitability.

That said, one caveat is that some red dwarfs are known to be violently active and to unleash powerful flares of radiation that could destroy any semblance of habitability on a planet.

As mentioned on the NASA website, Curiosity is currently exploring the lower slopes of Mount Sharp, a huge mountain in the middle of Gale crater, which can provide more clues about the habitability of this region a few billion years ago.

Theoretical studies have also quantified the effect on climate and habitability of the interaction between the spectral energy distribution of M - dwarf stars and the atmospheres and surfaces of their planets.

They find that much depends on how we set limits on the habitable zone, but in general habitability durations of a billion years are possible for planets within 2 - 3 Roche radii for brown dwarfs above 0.03 solar masses.

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.

As research into planetary habitability continues, through theory as well as observations, we will indeed continue to observe how even basic physical principles can manifest in very different ways on these alien worlds.

As for Viking's prime mission, how do you search for life on a planet when there are so many things that are unknown about the current and past conditions, and potential for habitability overall?