Sentences with phrase «other planetary surfaces»

Astrobotic, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, has been selected by NASA to receive a Phase II SBIR award to develop a small lunar rover capable of carrying on small scale science and exploration on the Moon and other planetary surfaces.

«The detection of these compounds in comets helps to expand our knowledge of... the potential ingredients for life that could have been delivered to the early Earth or other planetary surfaces by comets,» says Jamie Elsila, an astrochemist at NASA.

This is a new geological phenomenon, which doesn't happen on Earth, and could be vital to understanding similar processes on other planetary surfaces.»

Not exact matches

«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.

Over time, these slowly spinning boulders bumped into each other with enough force to wear their edges into smooth surfaces, write the scientists in this month's issue of Planetary and Space Science.

In the search for other Earths, the main goal is to find a planet the same size as ours that sits in the habitable zone — the region around a given star where planetary surface temperature would be similar to ours, allowing liquid water to exist.

But some regions may become redder and darker than others because parts of the atmosphere collapse, exposing those spots to more surface - darkening radiation from space, researchers report March 22 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

Variations in texture seen in different portions of the fault surface may explain why Costa Rica has complex, patchy earthquakes that do not seem to slip to shallow depths, unlike some other megathrust faults, said first author Joel Edwards, a Ph.D. candidate in Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.

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.

«We now have evidence that Europa's ocean is not isolated — that the ocean and the surface talk to each other and exchange chemicals,» says Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech.

Hubble resolves Martian surface features with a level of detail only exceeded by planetary probes, such as impact craters and other features as small as 30 miles (50 kilometers) across.

The scope of COSPAR comprises space studies of the Earth's surface, meteorology and climate; space studies of the Earth - Moon system and other bodies of the solar system, including the search for evidence of life in the solar system; study of planetary atmospheres including those of the ever - expanding inventory of exoplanets; space plasmas in the solar system; research in astrophysics from space; life sciences as related to space; materials sciences in space; and fundamental physics in space.

The water ice counteracts the traditional danger of living above ground by serving as a radiation barrier, offsetting fears of solar exposure that have, until now, projected Martian architecture into a dark underworld — buried beneath a regolithic surface that is believed to contain perchlorates, gypsum and other substances hazardous to human life.Water as a Radiation Shield By taking advantage of water - ice's ability to filter the sun's rays and protect against radiation, ICE HOUSE prioritizes a life above ground and celebrates the human presence on the planetary surface.

Given the obvious, unmanageable problems we are having around the world today, what do you think our planetary home will look like in 2050 when 9 + billion people -LCB- plus other surviving animal species) are dumping on the surface of Earth?

You typed: «Planets with a thin atmosphere and insignificant greenhouse effect, on the other hand, have a surface temperature that is close the the estimates from the planetary energy balance model (Figure 3).»

Planets with a thin atmosphere and insignificant greenhouse effect, on the other hand, have a surface temperature that is close the the estimates from the planetary energy balance model (Figure 3).»

The point you are trying to make is so vital, so incredibly significant, that I would hope others could be encouraged to set their subjective discomforts aside, to put their ignorance and / or denial of reality aside, and acknowledge the ominously looming, human - driven predicament before humanity, the one apparently induced by the huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of global human over consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities now overspreading the surface of the wondrous planetary home upon which God has blessed us to live so well.

The idealized GCMs described above are flexible and general enough that it is relatively straightforward to convert them into GCMs for other planets, for example, with different planetary rotation rates and radii and with different thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere, condensable species, and surface.

One has to look to the other macroscopic force which is conspicuously absent from the GHG assertions (can't call the «equations» because such don't exist), gravity, to explain the 3 %, in the case of Earth, and 125 %, in the case of Venus, greater surface than orbital temperatures (take those figures to the 4th power for equivalent energy densities) seen in all planetary atmospheres, and indeed all gravitational wells.

The attempt to involve «fluorocarbons» and other superfluous «concepts» is based still in the misinterpretations of Energy prevalent within «greenhouse science» as still the Energy incident to the surface, persistently within the Visible and Lower UV spectrum, has NOT been observed to alter in any manner sufficiently significant to cause either «warming» or «cooling» in interaction with the materials actually present both within the atmosphere, or on the planetary surface.

The air and the sea surfaces conduct their own complex dance around the planetary temperature equilibrium and no doubt the planetary temperature equilibrium itself constantly dances around with the influence of other variables.

The constantly changing Solar System Barycentre varies from being just «the other side» of the solar core to a solar radius outside the Sun's surface, introducing rapidly changing accelerations from planetary bodies at varying latitudes and longitudes around the Solar body.

«Apart from all other reasons, the parameters of the geoid depend on the distribution of water over the planetary surface.»

Hockey Schtick January 21, 2014 at 5:32 pm «Not true, planetary surface temperatures on Earth and other planets can be fully explained by the adiabatic lapse rate + solar insolation alone, no IR active gases required, only equivalent atmospheric pressure + solar insolation.»

The other problem is that the overall conformation of the materialing of the planetary land surface is not well known either, so kinetic energy induction rates, and distribution of such induction, is still not well defined.

Not true, planetary surface temperatures on Earth and other planets can be fully explained by the adiabatic lapse rate + solar insolation alone, no IR active gases required, only equivalent atmospheric pressure + solar insolation.