Sentences with phrase «on planetary missions»

During the first few years she cut her teeth on experimental lab work and informational control and design as a robotic engineer, but what she really wanted to do was work directly on planetary missions.

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«No one expected a mountain on Ceres, especially one like Ahuna Mons,» Christopher Russell, a planetary scientist who leads the Dawn mission, said in the release.

For Planetary Resources, the first wave of development is to culminate in a doughnut - shape spacecraft heading on a prospecting mission to a near - Earth asteroid in 2020.

«There's a perception that Venus is a very difficult place to have a mission,» says planetary scientist Darby Dyar of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. «Everybody knows about the high pressures and temperatures on Venus, so people think we don't have technology to survive that.

At a joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Conference and the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences held last week in Nantes, France, the session on ExoMars began not with a review of the mission's science, but with a discussion about ways to ensure its survival.

MAVEN arrived at Mars in Sept. 2014 on a mission to investigate a planetary mystery: Billions of years ago, Mars was blanketed by layer of air massive enough to warm the planet and allow liquid water to flow on its surface.

«Each mission became more scientifically productive as the program went on,» says Paul Spudis, senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

«It's frustrating because it should be a golden age of planetary exploration because there's so much data that's coming in, but what's missing is the commitment of funding to interpret the measurements,» says Jim Bell, associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University and a science team member on the twin Mars rover mission.

«She has reached any number of «first woman to...» milestones, including principal investigator on a NASA planetary mission and head of an MIT science department,» but, Zuber told ScienceInsider, «I've never realized I was first until after the fact.

McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, ventures to some of Earth's most extreme environments to study the closest facsimiles he can find to Mars and other distant outposts, on a mission to learn how life might exist beyond our planet.

My goal for planetary missions from here on out is to find roles where I can have a lot more fun and a lot less responsibility.

For each of the past couple of years, Congress has given the agency's planetary - sciences division tens of millions of dollars more than it asked for, and directed it to spend the money on Europa mission concepts.

Already, though, one payoff is clear: The mission is nurturing a new generation of Emirati planetary scientists preparing to work on Mars data, says Hope mission head Omran Sharaf, an electrical engineer who previously worked on the DubaiSat satellites.

Hunter Waite has waited years for the chance to use his planetary science engineering chops on a mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

A landing on Europa is «not an easy thing to achieve, primarily because we don't really know what the surface is like on the meter and submeter scale,» says Ronald Greeley, an Arizona State University planetary geologist and co-chair of NASA's science definition team for the Europa mission.

Zhang's coauthors are Darrell Strobel, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University and co-investigator on the New Horizons mission, and Hiroshi Imanaka, a scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, who studies the chemistry of haze particles in planetary atmospheres.

If Beagle 2 finds evidence of life on Mars, no other result from Mars Express, or from any other planetary mission, will compare with it.

«You can get an establishment view if you have limited data,» explains Jonathan Lunine, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona who worked on the now pushed - back Titan mission.

NASA plans to spend $ 10 million over the next year to further develop the mission concept, Jim Green, NASA's planetary science division director, told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday.

«There has been a decade of investment on the Europa mission,» NASA manager Curt Niebur told planetary scientists last March in a packed hotel ballroom in Bethesda, Maryland, shortly after the announcement.

(The laws of planetary motion derived by Johannes Kepler, the 17th - century German astronomer and namesake of the Kepler mission, show that the duration of an orbit depends on its size.)

Microbial ecology of a crewed rover traverse in the arctic: Low microbial dispersal and implications for planetary protection on human Mars missions.

«The MAVEN spacecraft and its instruments are fully operational and well on their way to carrying out the primary science mission,» said Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

To Casey Dreier, director of space policy at The Planetary Society, supporting such ambitious yet unsanctioned missions while acting to undermine ones like WFIRST makes little sense, particularly because Congress has proactively provided hundreds of millions of dollars for that mission already on a bipartisan basis.

This allows NASA to maintain critical momentum in rebuilding its planetary exploration program, preserve its Earth science missions, and to begin work on the next generation of space telescopes.

«Seeing a new world for the first time, I mean that's huge,» says Cathy Olkin, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and a deputy project scientist on the New Horizons mission.

Researchers hope such hardy bugs could help future planetary exploration missions extract minerals from rocks or recycle waste on remote planets, allowing something like a permanent moon or Mars base to operate self - sufficiently.

A NASA planetary exploration mission came to a planned, but nonetheless dramatic, end Thursday when it slammed into Mercury's surface at about 8,750 mph and created a new crater on the planet's surface.

Coming hot off the heels of discoveries made by other observatories, including NASA's Kepler and CoRot (the Convection, Rotation, and Planetary Transits mission, led by France's CNES with contributions from the ESA), this spacecraft is intended to build significantly on our knowledge of the universe, the Solar System, and the formation of life in general.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Science Programme Committee announced on Wednesday, February 19, that it has selected the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars (PLATO) mission for a prospective 2024 launch utilizing a Soyuz - Fregat launch vehicle.

In the last couple of months, NASA has appeared to put a greater emphasis on the role its overall asteroid initiative, including the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), could play in planetary defense.

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When planetary scientists started studying the photographs and data from Voyager and the subsequent Galileo mission that studied the Jovian system during the 1990s and early 2000s, they confirmed this notion: these ridges, or lineae, are fructures, or cracks, on Europa's icy surface, caused be the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons.

From the European Space Agency (ESA): «The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission will identify and study thousands of exoplanetary systems, with an emphasis on discovering and characterising Earth - sized planets and super-Earths.

Despite this lack in our coverage of the Solar System, the importance of a dedicated mission to the ice giants hasn't been lost on the planetary science community.

It really made me feel like they just want to spend money on design and fabricate some test vehicles but not launch them because # 1 it to expensive and # 2 they really don't know where to go or than an asteroid mission because Planetary Resources really doesn't want to spend their own money on R&D... Considering the events in the Ukraine and Iran... The world may end before the SLS / Orion goes anywhere other LEO or maybe just maybe to the Moon!!!

The goal of the ARIEL mission is to investigate the atmospheres of several hundreds planets orbiting distant stars in order to address the fundamental questions on how planetary systems form and evolve.

«No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies,» ASE member Rusty Schweickart, who flew on the Apollo 9 mission in 1969, said Friday during a panel discussion at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Bill Nye: Well, talking some more about me, I'm the CEO of The Planetary Society so what I have encouraged the staff to do is focus on our mission.

«I think it is too early to eulogize Cassini on the occasion of its death, as incineration is five months away,» Jonathan Lunine, director of the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science and a longtime member of the Cassini mission team, told USA Today.

Since the K2 mission officially began in May, Kepler has observed more than 35,000 stars and collected data on several planetary objects within the solar system.

Major sources of astrophysical false positives are planetary transits and stellar eclipses on background... ▽ More The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for Earth - size planets with the transit technique.

Dad may not be able to go to Mars himself this year, but his name can be put on the first ever public naming effort for Mars, and he'll know that it'll be going to Mars when Mars One launches its first lander mission in 2018,» said Alan Stern, Ph.D., planetary scientist, and founder and CEO of Uwingu; Stern formerly directed all science programs and missions at NASA.

Having traveled a grand total of 25 miles (40 km) over the course of its historic mission of exploration, NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has taken the record for the greatest distance traveled on another planetary body.

«The Earth - Trojan asteroid search provides a substantial advantage to the OSIRIS - REx mission,» Dante Lauretta, principal investigator on the project and professor of Planetary Science and Cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, said in a press release.

he wants to leverage everything the United States and its international partners have to offer so NASA can carry out not only exploration missions back to the Moon and on to Mars, but Earth Science, Planetary Science, Heliophysics, Astrophysics and Aeronautics Research;

Planetary scientist Alan Stern will discuss NASA's New Horizons mission and Uwingu with NBC News» Alan Boyle at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday on «Virtually Speaking Science,» a talk show airing on BlogTalkRadio and in the Second Life virtual world.

The OSIRIS - REx mission, launched on September 8th, 2016 and scheduled to arrive at Asteroid Bennu in August 2018, is the most ambitious University of Arizona planetary science project to date [2] and will retrieve a sample of the asteroid and return it to Earth.

Follow - up observations of planetary candidates identified by detection of transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic planetary transits and for characterization of the... ▽ More The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for terrestrial - size planets with the transit technique.

New images were taken, including a global view centered on relatively bright Kuiper Crater, previously identified on images from the Mariner 10 mission (during planetary «encounters» between March 1974 and March 1975.