Sentences with phrase «other solar systems for»

Future probes like NASA»S James Webb Space Telescope will scrutinise the atmospheres of planets in other solar systems for possible signs of biological activity.

Not exact matches

The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in the solar system.

This is a new planet in the tech solar system: I think you're going to have a company emerge that's really good at emotions that remains independent and provides a tool set or operating system for other companies to incorporate.»

Months - long testing of the system began in November at the energy department's Nevada National Security Site, with an eye toward providing energy for future human and robotic missions in space and on the surface of Mars, the moon or other solar system destinations.

«That makes it practical to refuel them in space and use them for other purposes, or simply use them as a shuttle to run down and grab a spacecraft that you might be so heavy you could only get it to [low - Earth orbit], and then take it literally anywhere else in the solar system,» Bruno added.

FLS Energy has developed solar energy systems for leading industrial and technology companies such as SAS Institute, Prestage Foods, and Kimberly Clark; universities and colleges such as Wake Forest University, Guilford College, and Appalachian State University; and a number of governmental institutions, hotels, and other commercial enterprises throughout the Southeast.

However, it is also clear that increased prices for steel and aluminum don't only affect the solar racking, tracking and mounting systems industry, but also other forms of power that are in competition with solar.

Of course, plenty of other scientists are in the hunt for life - supporting worlds outside our solar system.

there wold be no life to «adapt to the environment» the solar system we live in... is strategically placed for life... if it were in any other place, then we would be bombarded by meteors and such... plus with the solar system where it is at is making it so that the earth going around the sun in the track it is in possible... thus providing FOR life... your argument only goes part wafor life... if it were in any other place, then we would be bombarded by meteors and such... plus with the solar system where it is at is making it so that the earth going around the sun in the track it is in possible... thus providing FOR life... your argument only goes part waFOR life... your argument only goes part way..

Standing beside each other, these bottles would stretch for over six miles — each full to the brim with sand, each grain a solar system (probably) on average as big and complex as ours, resplendent with planets, moons, asteroids and, in some cases, perhaps life.

what i truely believe is that the moon on that day dec 23 2012 will escape the earth gravity because of the solar systems alignment with the milky way and the same goes for the other planets moons causing the moons too sling shot in every direction.

He has also initiated several eco-conscious improvements to the buildings and farm equipment, including over 50Kw of solar panels that provide much of the farm's electricity; the conversion of cooking oil into biodiesel to power the tractors and other vehicles; and a rainwater capture system that feeds a pond, which provides irrigation for the apple orchard and other landscaping.

They both carried a plaque, you may recall, with an image of a man and a woman, the hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen, the position of the earth and solar system, and some other info of possible interest of the lawyers for any intelligent beings whose house the things may slam into some distant day.

It may seem like a trivial distinction for something billions of years old, but it could make a difference when pinning down the conditions that led to the solar system's formation, says Bouvier, and those needed for other life - friendly planetary systems to form.

«There were just better proposals» for other Solar System targets, he says.

Newborn planets in other solar systems endure «catastrophic» collisions for hundreds of millions of years, according to a new astronomical survey of nearby stars.

«If we understand how early Mars operated, it could tell us something about the potential for finding life on other planets outside the solar system.»

In this two - hour PBS special (a fine companion to The Life of Super-Earths), NOVA combines cutting - edge planetary science with the thrill of human exploration, putting astronomers and astrobiologists «on location» across the solar system as they explain the scientific search for life on other worlds.

Reaching the necessary level of precision requires correcting the data for small perturbations in Earth's orbit owing to the other planets in our solar system.

Whereas Pluto's putative ocean could in principle support life, it is probably locked beneath perhaps 200 kilometers of ice and very far from Earth, making it a much less appealing target for astrobiological studies than other, closer subsurface oceans known to exist in the solar system, such as those within the icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

In keeping with all the rest of Ceres's oddball uncertainties, the findings hold major albeit nebulous implications for our understanding of the dwarf planet and its relationship to the other large objects in our solar system.

Migration early in our solar system's history could account for other oddities, including the small size of Mars and the sparse, disrupted asteroid belt.

From this perspective, there is no other promising location for life in our solar system.

Most CSP systems require significant amounts of water, which has proven to be a challenge in desert regions of the U.S. where solar power is most attractive, while Stirling engines require none other than small amounts for cleaning the mirrors.

But we have to understand what the details of the available power are,» says Hermann Böhnhardt, the other lead Philae scientist, at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany.

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.

For decades Pluto, later joined by its moon Charon, had a wide swath to itself on astronomers» plots of the solar system — no other bodies were known to dwell beyond Neptune in the long - hypothesized debris field known as the Kuiper Belt.

The work suggests that frigid Titan actually resembles Earth in some key ways, such as seasonal weather, and it also hints at the possibility that the moon holds vast underground reservoirs of liquid hydrocarbons — a first for any other body in the solar system.

The other solar system body that has always intrigued me, for the very same reason, has been [Jupiter's moon] Europa.

Three recent missions have found an unexpectedly large supply of water on the moon that could both quench the thirst of future lunar dwellers and produce fuel for missions to other places in the solar system.

While scientists find ever more planets around other stars and contemplate missions to probe the far reaches of our own solar system, researchers are looking to the extremes of the Earth for clues about what kind of organisms could exist in the brutal conditions elsewhere.

For astronomers, the proposed new telescope represents tremendous promise: With a mirror nearly three times larger than any other on Earth, it could detect signs of life in other solar systems and provide clues to the origins of the universe.

Sasselov, a 46 - year - old Harvard University astronomer and director of the university's Origins of Life Initiative, is looking for life - sustainable extrasolar planets — planets that are circling suns in other solar systems.

It shares a star with 7 other planets, tying our record for most worlds in a solar system

The radiation used for cancer therapies is a much more targeted version of what exists in outer space, and exposure to that radiation presents a major health risk, and thus a serious challenge for NASA, SpaceX, and other organizations trying to explore the solar system.

Some crystal - ball gazers have speculated that antihydrogen could provide fuel for package tours to Pluto, or power probes to other stars and solar systems.

And the language is ambiguous and I'll let you talk about how it's — for some people it's an affirmation of a Ptolemaic worldview or universe view, solar system view for others, it's an embracing of the new Copernican view.

«With the help of Dawn and other missions, we are continually adding to our understanding of how the solar system began and how the planets were formed,» said Chris Russell, principal investigator for the Dawn mission, based at the University of California, Los Angeles.

He examines theories on the conditions required for biological life to arise and how likely it is that such life exists on other planets in our own or other solar systems.

Yam: One thing I do want to mention [is] though, you know, we featured 12 events, but of course, you can come up with several others; you can say that, for instance, a supervolcano or even just life elsewhere in the solar system could also be considered and that could change everything.

For most companies participating, employees will have up to a year to decide to install a solar system, officials said, and the PV panels and other equipment can either be purchased or leased with a range of financing options.

In this context there is a real case for looking for life on Mars and in other areas of the solar system in general.

Some of these planets, all located far beyond Earth's solar system, could contain vast deposits of graphite or diamonds, and their apparent abundance prompts new questions about the implications of carbon - intense environments for climate, plate tectonics, and other geological processes, as well as for life.

The additional funds would support the administration's directive to reinvigorate human and robotic exploration of Earth's moon and other planets in the solar system but would also come at the expense of several other big - ticket items in NASA's portfolio — namely the International Space Station (ISS) as well as the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), a «flagship» - class mission next in line for launch after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

The pitch was to buy and install a small supercomputer, which he would name for the biggest donor, to speed up data processing on a search for moons in other solar systems.

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Others call for constructing gossamer - thin thousand - kilometer - wide «sails» in space, which would ride on powerful laser or particle beams out of solar system.

Gerry is joined by several other scientists and engineers in the CSR looking for artificial signals coming from outside our solar system (SETI).

As impact glass is a ubiquitous substrate on rocky bodies throughout the Solar System and likely common on the early Earth, the preservation of biological activity in impact glass has significant astrobiological implications for life on early Earth as well as for the search for life on other planets.

Of all the planets in the solar system other than Earth, Mars has arguably the greatest potential for life, either extinct or extant.