Sentences with phrase «other planets such»

Players who get in will be able to construct land or air robots that can fight on other planets such as Mars.

Not exact matches

Studying storms such as this and comparing them to similar events on other planets (think Jupiter's Great Red Spot) help scientists better understand weather patterns throughout the solar system, even here on Earth.

Several other Silicon Valley start - ups, such as Planet Labs and Masten Space Systems, have been making headlines recently as they enter the space exploration market, an endeavor long associated with, and controlled by, the government.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

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But why should sense even count, i mean you people believe that you are special and get to life forever compared to all the other creatures on this planet — such arrogance and pride — as the old saying goes, this will be your downfall!

We who sacrifice fabulous resources to fatten the most inhuman form of violence so that it will continue to protect us, and who pass our time in transmitting futile messages from a planet that is risking destruction to planets that are already dead» how can we have the extraordinary hypo crisy to pretend that we do not understand all those people who did such things long before us: those, for example, who made it their practice to throw a single child, or two at the most, into the furnace of a certain Moloch in order to ensure the safety of the others?

I'm not sure what is meant by «global loyalty» - perhaps it would become a virtue in the event of invasion from other planets - but I am sure that such jargon contributes little to understanding why so many thoughtful Americans are coming to a jaundiced view of the UN and other institutions created in support of an internationalism that is now unsupported by clear doctrine, or any doctrine at all.

Now what can we say about God's relation to such intelligent beings on other planets?

What other genre on the planet affords such a space to freely and unabashedly celebrate God with such enthusiasm?

But on the other hand I think we must pay serious attention to warnings such as that recently uttered by Mr. Fairfield Osborn, in his book Our Plundered Planet.

The typical Western man probably feels sure that angels, devils, and spirits do not exist in reality but only as figments in deluded imaginations, but he is not ashamed to admit that he does not yet know whether there are such entities as people on other planets.

And how about storms on other planets, such as Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune?

Then actually seeing the crumbles in the Selfridges Food Hall, and on the shelves of some of my other shops such as Daylesford and Planet Organic filled me with so much happiness.

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Of course others such as Zinedine Zidane have made similar moves, with one of the biggest clubs on the planet, Real Madrid.

Otherwise I don; t think any other manager on this planet would be able to pull off such a feat with those limitations.

No other people on the planet other than those from Western industrialized societies worry about such differences between children.

Fighting Climate Change from her Canadian perch, EcoYogini uses «Yoga Fire» and other such various moves to protect our planet.

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The Obama campaign has also been active on other soc nets such as Black Planet, and in each case they adapt their approach to meet the particular rules, requirements and customs of that site.

In addition, he adds, «a better understanding of sediment transport can be used to reconstruct environments of Earth's past or on other planets, such as Mars, through observations of previously moved sediment, now preserved in deposits.»

«There are storms on other planets, such as Jupiter's Great Red Spot, but there is nothing like this one.»

The new planet's mass and density are not yet known precisely, but a joint effort by the Kepler spacecraft that launched in March and the W. M. Keck telescopes could provide such data for this and other planets.

Perturbations would eject one such planet from the system, leaving the other behind in an oval orbit.

The lack of oxygen will also affect other elemental cycles on the planet, such as nitrogen and carbon.

Due to gravitational effects in the solar system, such as the tug of other planets, Mercury's oval - shaped path around the sun slowly turns, or precesses.

Such stars used to be dismissed because any planet orbiting close enough to stay warm gets locked into synchronous rotation: One hemisphere perpetually faces the star, growing sizzling hot, while the other side points away, becoming so cold that any atmosphere would freeze onto the surface.

Having the mass and radii of a planet allows the astronomers to calculate other features such as a planet's average density, «and once you know the average density of a planet, then you can start to say whether it's rocky or not,» Kane explained.

Other projects were downsized, and a few, such as Nustar and the Terrestrial Planet Finder, were put on hold indefinitely.

Holman says the changes in the transit times of these planets were enhanced by the fact that one of the planets orbits the star in almost exactly half of the time that it takes the other, as such «orbital resonances» increase their gravitational interaction.

It also could prove useful in situations when deploying even one sensor is challenging — such as on missions to other planets.

«How could Earth have been subject to such a bombardment while the other terrestrial planets were somehow immune?»

Such an event could enable bacteria and other forms of life to make their way from one planet in the solar system to another and perhaps beyond.

Fissures and fractures around Tombaugh Regio and other parts of the planet suggested a subsurface layer of watery slush might be slowly solidifying, breaking up the surface as it expands like ice cubes in a freezer — but other, drier possibilities could also explain such cracks.

At such close range, a planet would probably become gravitationally locked to its star, so that one boiling - hot side would perpetually face the star while the other side, freezing cold, would face out into dark space.

Hundreds of such bodies circled the sun before the larger ones cannibalized the rest to form Earth and the other modern planets.

Such a sequence of events, on a much larger scale, may explain the birth of our own Moon in the early days of the Solar System, as well as the origin of many other satellites around planets and asteroids.

This is surprising because Neptune is much farther from the Sun than other planets, which show no such changes.

Such one - step oxygen formation could be happening now as carbon dioxide increases in the region of the upper atmosphere, where high energy vacuum ultraviolet light from the Sun hits Earth or other planets.

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

«Many impacts respond directly to changes in global temperature, regardless of the sensitivity of the planet to human emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases,» says geoscientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, a co-author of the report, excluding effects such as ocean acidification and CO2 as a fertilizer for plants.

Runyon and his co-authors argue for a definition of «planet» that focuses on the intrinsic qualities of the body itself, rather than external factors such as its orbit or other objects around it.

Other exoplanet names likewise derived from star names include the HD series, such as the super-Earth HD 85512 b, and the Gliese and GJ planets.

Such gargantuan telescopes would build on the technologies now being developed by Breakthrough and other organizations, and would offer hope of detecting biosignatures and other gases in planets» atmospheres to reveal whether they are habitable — or even inhabited.

While the team showed that such a platform could theoretically be used to detect life on other planets, it is not ready for a space mission just yet.

The team used Hubble and Spitzer observations of two such planets, HD 209458b heic0303, opo0707b and HD 189733b heic1312, heic0720a, and used Hubble to observe eight other exoplanets — WASP - 6b, WASP - 12b, WASP - 17b, WASP - 19b, WASP - 31b, WASP - 39b, HAT - P - 1b, HAT - P - 12b.

However, some scenarios can mimic the signature of a transiting planet, such as two stars that orbit each other, and provide a false positive signal.

Other features of the transit — its duration, how much light is blocked, and how quickly the brightness dips — provide additional details such as the planet's diameter.

She hopes the UAE Mars probe will inspire others to undertake more such «smaller, nimbler missions that complement the big ones and really help us build up a picture of our neighboring planet.»