Sentences with phrase «on planets with atmospheres»

It takes rocket science to launch and fly spacecraft to faraway planets and moons, but a deep understanding of how materials perform under extreme conditions is also needed to enter and land on planets with atmospheres.

It couldn't be quite as fast as on a planet with no atmosphere because there would also be non radiative energy exchanges between the GHGs and the ground via conduction and convection.

On a planet with an atmosphere of N2 and O2, adding a CO2 would cause warming.

The TOA is the radiating «surface» on a planet with an atmosphere, which is in radiative equilibrium with the Sun at 255K.

On a planet with no atmosphere surrounded by a steel shell, where the planet is generating 235 W / m ^ 2, then the radiation will warm the shell.

Not exact matches

Depending on whether you're landing on a planet or a moon that has no atmosphere, a thin atmosphere, or a dense atmosphere, and depending on whether you're reentering with no payload in the front, a small payload, or a heavy payload, you have to balance the rocket out as it's coming in.

Who knows, there might be other life forms out there on planets with differnt types of suns, other types of atmosphere, maybe even based on something other than carbon... Religion can't answer those questions, but science, ever so slowly, is plugging away at the answers.

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, each with planets, that large of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but life may not require it on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else in our galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of planets.

There's no true surface on Neptune, since its atmosphere gradually merges with the water, but a trip above the clouds will afford you a gorgeous glimpse of the planet's six rings and 13 moons.

With knowledge only of the luminosity of the star (1/600 that of the sun), the mass of the planet (1.3 times that of Earth), and the length of its orbit (11.2 days), the team was able to predict that, with a variety of possible atmospheres, it would be possible for Proxima b to harbor liquid water on its surfWith knowledge only of the luminosity of the star (1/600 that of the sun), the mass of the planet (1.3 times that of Earth), and the length of its orbit (11.2 days), the team was able to predict that, with a variety of possible atmospheres, it would be possible for Proxima b to harbor liquid water on its surfwith a variety of possible atmospheres, it would be possible for Proxima b to harbor liquid water on its surface.

The planet overheated and water on the surface rapidly evaporated, filling the atmosphere with water vapor; the vapor trapped more heat, which caused more evaporation, and so on.

If Proxima b proves to have an atmosphere, Loeb and Kreidberg have also proposed using Webb to probe for the infrared signature of ozone in Proxima Centauri's glare as a possible sign that the planet's air is filled with oxygen — something that, on Earth, is mostly produced by life.

For about a minute, running on half a hair dryer's worth of power, the orbiter - cum - probe beamed direct measures of the planet's atmosphere, along with final probes of its gravity and magnetic field, to mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

However, this research applies this model to a planet with conditions far from that present on Earth, with temperatures exceeding one thousand degrees and an atmosphere spanning pressures orders of magnitude larger.

At 3:04 p.m. EDT (12:04 p.m. PDT) on September 11, the spacecraft used a gravitational nudge from Saturn's largest moon to set itself on a collision course with the giant planet's atmosphere on September 15.

A «last kiss goodbye» with Saturn's largest moon sent the Cassini spacecraft on its final trajectory into the planet's atmosphere.

In the case of Venus, you're seeing that the effects that were going on were drawing away the oxygen disproportionately and leaving the planet enriched with carbon dioxide in it's atmosphere.

«Here was a planet with all the elements needed to support life in its atmosphere, with evidence of liquid water in the past, and yet there was no life --[as if] Mars had the lights on, but nobody was home,» he says.

In a decade, NASA hopes to launch a network of space - based telescopes that will be able to pinpoint Earth - like planets in other solar systems and see whether life has altered their atmosphere in the same way it has here on Earth — flooding it with oxygen, for example.

Although both worlds are similar in size and density, our planetary neighbor has temperatures so high they can melt lead, winds that whip around it some 60 times faster than the planet itself rotates and an atmosphere that slams down with more than 90 times the pressure found on Earth's atmosphere.

In March, one team predicted a «meteor hurricane» on Mars, with billions of bits of dust streaking through the Red Planet's atmosphere each hour for about 5 hours.

The NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope is already being used to search for atmospheres around the planets and team member Emmanuël Jehin is excited about the future possibilities: «With the upcoming generation of telescopes, such as ESO's European Extremely Large Telescope and the NASA / ESA / CSA James Webb Space Telescope, we will soon be able to search for water and perhaps even evidence of life on these worlds.»

«With this result we are also closing in on the detection of the atmospheres of small planets with ground - based telescopes,» says co-author Mercedes Lopez - Morales of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CWith this result we are also closing in on the detection of the atmospheres of small planets with ground - based telescopes,» says co-author Mercedes Lopez - Morales of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Cwith ground - based telescopes,» says co-author Mercedes Lopez - Morales of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

But in many instances, the simulations show, even planets starting with rocky cores as little as 1.5 Earth's mass may trap and hold atmospheres containing between 100 and 1000 times the amount of hydrogen found in the water in Earth's oceans — thick, dense envelopes exerting pressures so hellish that life on the planets» surfaces might be almost impossible.

Barstow's study shows that JWST may be able to differentiate between a planet with a clement, Earth - like atmosphere, and one with more hostile conditions such as are found on our neighbouring planet Venus.

It would answer scientific questions that have been considered high priorities for many years, such as whether there are volcanoes active today on the surface of Venus and how the surface interacts with the atmosphere of the planet.

A team of astronomers may have discovered a «hot Jupiter» exoplanet with an atmosphere that snows titanium oxide — a kind of sunscreen — exclusively on the one side of the planet that is bathed in perpetual darkness.

«With this result we are also closing in on the detection of the atmospheres of small planets with ground - based telescopes,» Mercedes Lopez - Morales of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the study's co-author, said in the statemWith this result we are also closing in on the detection of the atmospheres of small planets with ground - based telescopes,» Mercedes Lopez - Morales of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the study's co-author, said in the statemwith ground - based telescopes,» Mercedes Lopez - Morales of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the study's co-author, said in the statement.

Depending on star type, a planet with Earth's atmosphere in a habitable zone orbit would have a different colored sky and apparent size of their «Sun» (more).

In order for an atom or molecule to escape a planet, two things are required: (1) its speed must exceed the escape speed, which is 5 km / s for Mars and 10 km / s for Earth, and (2) it must be high enough in the atmosphere such that it does not collide with another atom on its way out (this part of the atmosphere is called an exosphere).

Scientists have conducted the first lab experiments on haze formation in simulated exoplanet atmospheres, an important step for understanding upcoming observations of planets outside the solar system with the James Webb Space Telescope.

The spacecraft launched in Nov. 2013 to gather data on the planet's atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with solar wind and the sun.

On the dwarf planet, the reddish color is likely caused by tholins, which are formed when cosmic rays and solar ultraviolet light interact with methane in Pluto's atmosphere and on its surfacOn the dwarf planet, the reddish color is likely caused by tholins, which are formed when cosmic rays and solar ultraviolet light interact with methane in Pluto's atmosphere and on its surfacon its surface.

Researchers working with data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found the strongest evidence to date for the existence of a stratosphere — the layer of an atmosphere in which temperature increases with altitude — on an exoplanet (a planet outside of the Solar System).

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close passes through Saturn's upper atmosphere with its final five orbits around the planet.

Spectacular light displays, or auroras, are produced on the planets in our Solar System when those particles interact with chemical elements in the planets» atmospheres.

Of course, it all depends on the numbers, but if there were an exo - earth with a strong enough magnetosphere to maintain its oceans and atmosphere, and it were subject to periodic flares that irradiated the surface, then I would not rule out a biosphere on that hypothetical planet.

However, Earth is not the only planet with an atmosphere and magnetic field capable of putting on a show.

The presence of ozone helps to explain the detection of hydroxyl (an unstable molecule of oxygen with a single atom of hydrogen) high in planet's atmosphere in 2008 (ESA news releases on ozone, sulfur dioxide, and hydroxyl; Lisa Grossman, New Scientist, October 6, 2011; and Montmessin et al, 2011).

The ultraviolet Hubble data was captured after astronomers detected powerful solar winds heading towards Uranus, and tasked the telescope with observing the effects on the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field

Spectroscopic studies that rely on variations in the depth of the transit with wavelength have been used to identify gases such as hydrogen, sodium, and methane in the upper atmospheres of some close - in giant planets.

1:20 PM Liu - Abundance Studies of Stellar Hosts of Terrestrial Planets 1:40 PM Kitiashvili - 3D Realistic Modeling of Stellar Convection as a Tool to Study Effects of Stellar Jitter on RV Measurements 2:00 PM Crossfield - Planet Densities (invited) 2:30 PM Break and Poster Viewing 3:00 PM Guyon - Coronagraphs for Planet Detection (invited) 3:30 PM Martins - Exoplanet Reflections in the era of Giant Telescopes 3:50 PM Close - Direct Detection of Exoplanets with GMT AO: A proof of concept design for a GMT Phase A ExAO planet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss - SPlanet Densities (invited) 2:30 PM Break and Poster Viewing 3:00 PM Guyon - Coronagraphs for Planet Detection (invited) 3:30 PM Martins - Exoplanet Reflections in the era of Giant Telescopes 3:50 PM Close - Direct Detection of Exoplanets with GMT AO: A proof of concept design for a GMT Phase A ExAO planet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss - SPlanet Detection (invited) 3:30 PM Martins - Exoplanet Reflections in the era of Giant Telescopes 3:50 PM Close - Direct Detection of Exoplanets with GMT AO: A proof of concept design for a GMT Phase A ExAO planet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss - Splanet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss - Summary

Author of books: Atmospheres of Mars and Venus (1961, nonfiction) Planets (1966, nonfiction, with Jonathan Norton Leonard) Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966, nonfiction, with Iosif S. Shklovskii) Planetary Exploration (1970, nonfiction) Planetary Atmospheres (1971, nonfiction, with Tobias C. Owen and Harlan J. Smith) U.F.O.'s: A Scientific Debate (1972, with Thornton Page) The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973, nonfiction) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1973, nonfiction) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977, nonfiction) Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record (1978, nonfiction) Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979, nonfiction) Cosmos (1980, nonfiction) Comet (1985, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Contact (1985, novel) Nuclear Winter (1985, nonfiction) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (1990, nonfiction, with Richard P. Turco) The Demon - Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996, essays) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are (1992, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994, essays) Billions and Billions (1996, essays) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006, nonfiction, posthumous, with Ann Druyan)

As the planet is massive enough to hold on to a thick atmosphere with heat - circulating winds, however, it may host a wide range of relatively stable climates, with the most hospitable region for Earth - type life around the line between shadow and light known as the «terminator.»

A survey to focus only on the bright, close stars whose planets would be near enough to detect their atmospheres with instruments such as the JWST.

SWBF: RS was a great PSP game, but many of us wan't a StarWarsBattlefront for the PS3 with 60 player online play seemless space, to ground combat gameplay: Dogfight up in space and then fly into a planets atmosphere and dogfight around in the sky, then land troops on the planet and attack the enemy from abover with plantary bombardments, and large scale combat.

Old school Massively readers might recall us writing about Infinity, a long - in - development space sim MMO with a truly massive procedurally generated universe and the ability to seamlessly transition from space to atmosphere to land on some frickin» huge planets.

Post-launch updates have transformed the game again, but for us No Man's Sky is still at its best and purest when we first break atmosphere on a new planet with no set agenda.

You may land on a barren wasteland with a lethally toxic atmosphere, or an Eden swarming with exotic wildlife — and once the planet is discovered and generated, it is available for all other players to explore.

EA SPORTS UEFA EURO 2012 recreates all the drama and excitement of the official tournament with all 53 UEFA member national teams, all eight official stadiums in the tournament, and all the pageantry and atmosphere of one of the largest and most - watched sporting events on the planet.