Sentences with phrase «on other planetary bodies»
«There is a great deal of interest in the microbes of the Earth's crust because the strategies by which they survive may be similar to the earliest strategies of life on Earth, and perhaps also on other planetary bodies,» said Rachel M. Haymon, UCSB professor of geology.
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They aim to unite research interests to shed light on how life began and developed on earth, other planetary bodies, and the cosmos at large.
Although researchers have determined the ages of rocks from other planetary bodies, the actual experiments — like analyzing meteorites and moon rocks — have always been done on Earth.
The findings offer additional insight into the unusual and active geology on Pluto and, perhaps, other bodies like it on the planetary outskirts of the solar system.
The researchers are interested in studying the effects of haze particles on the atmospheric energy balance of other planetary bodies, such as Neptune's moon Triton and Saturn's moon Titan.
A similar system would work on Mars or some other planetary body,» says NASA's David Smitherman.