Sentences with phrase «on icy worlds»

In the greater NZ region, we have undersea hot springs (hydrothermal vents of the Kermadecs), marine hydrocarbon seeps and gas hydrates (offshore eastern North Island — possible analogues for oceans on Icy Worlds), and terrestrial (on land) hot springs in the Taupo Volcanic Zone and elsewhere around the country.

Potential for life on Icy Worlds (2d) SETI & other initiatives (e.g. Breakthrough Initiatives)(2e) New technologies for life detection

Though a previous geological study by Louise Prockter and Simon Kattenhorn made the case that something like subduction could be happening on Europa, it wasn't clear exactly how that process would work on an icy world..

Not exact matches

The largest and most mysterious resident of the debris belt between Mars and Jupiter is an icy world called Ceres, and it's on the threshold of being explored up close for the first time by NASA's Dawn mission, which is scheduled to enter Ceres's orbit on March 6.

The new study helps scientists expand their knowledge of what might be possible on planetary bodies in our solar system, said Kelsi Singer, a postdoctoral researcher who studies icy worlds at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and was not involved with the new research.

Other icy worlds in our solar system, like Pluto, Europa, Triton, Charon and Titan, may also have cryovolcanoes, but Ahuna Mons is conspicuously alone on Ceres.

«Since most of these icy worlds are incredibly small and faint, it's exciting to find a bright one that is easier to study, and which is on an interesting orbit.»

An icy world on the outskirts of our solar system, Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930.

Even if Pluto's ocean is really now just ice, Keane says, these new studies of Sputnik Planitia reveal a powerful and unique feedback between Pluto's climate and orbital evolution that could also operate on other icy worlds in the outer solar system.

Scientists are interested in understanding early life on Earth because if we ever hope to find life on other worlds - especially icy worlds with subsurface oceans such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus - we need to know what chemical signatures to look for.

Scientists are interested in understanding early life on Earth because if we ever hope to find life on other worlds — especially icy worlds with subsurface oceans such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus — we need to know what chemical signatures to look for.

«This may cause us to rethink what powers geological activity on many other icy worlds,» says GGI deputy team leader John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo..

The next step for the researchers will be trying to figure out what could produce such tall peaks on an icy ocean world.

The icy world rotates once for every 6 days, 9 hours and 22 minutes on Earth.

All of that changes on July 14 when the New Horizons spacecraft, nearly 5 billion kilometers from home, slipped past Pluto and gave humankind its only look at this icy world (see «Rendezvous with Pluto,» SN: 6/27/15, p. 16).

Laboratory experiments on Earth can now simulate the conditions under which life might emerge on Saturn's moon Enceladus, as well as other icy alien worlds, according to new research published in journal Astrobiology.

The two researchers racked their brains to come up with materials that might explain the new spectroscopic feature, and then tested everything from sodium chloride to Drano in Hand's lab at JPL, where he tries to simulate the environments found on various icy worlds.

The focus of JUICE is to characterise the conditions that may have led to the emergence of habitable environments among the Jovian icy satellites, with special emphasis on the three ocean - bearing worlds, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto.

Set decades before the events of either of its predecessors, Lost Planet 3 follows the exploits of «independent contractor» Jim Peyton as he lands on the icy, alien world EDN III.

From the shores of Cuba and the streets of New York City to the icy plains off the arctic Barents Sea, our elite force will crisscross the globe to stop an anarchist from unleashing chaos on the world's stage... and to bring home the man who made them a family.

Whether it's a device that blows salt onto an icy driveway or shoes that plow snow as you walk, we focus on making things that solve real problems, help people, and make the world a better place.

A world of icy F1 circuits, smiles, great cars running on metal spikes, reindeer pizzas (sorry, Rudolph), and never - ending power slides.

Then join us on one of our extraordinary surf adventures to the magical and icy world of Iceland!

Even with his limited palette — icy blues, warm, earthen reds and luminous, golden yellows — the artist evokes a luxurious world that verges on the sublime.

Singaporean Wyn Lyn Tan's video contribution Adrift begins with one looking through a ship's porthole to look at the icy world of the Arctic Circle, where she had gone on a 16 - day artist residency.

So as we close the book on another LegalTech, it's time to do what we do every year, which is take the themes and topics that emerged over the last few days in icy NYC and apply them to our particular patch of the legal technology world — whether that be representing clients, creating policy, protecting an organization, building technology or providing services.

One of Meehan's greatest successes was his representation of World Airways in a marathon case stemming from a 1982 Logan Airport accident in which a World Airways plane skidded on an icy runway and slid into the harbor.