Sentences with phrase «outer planets»

For our earlier discussion the most significant observation is that the magnetic fields of outer planets can not penetrate to inner solar system due to the influence of solar wind.

These brave women travel the world, tackle global problems, and explore outer planets.

This could not have occurred here; the outer star pair would have disrupted outer planet formation.

«These unexpected observations remind us keenly of how little we understand about atmospheric dynamics in outer planet atmospheres,» the authors wrote in their paper.

-- Young Servant of the State Marcus Savitch lives on Redwood, a restricted outer planet in the Janus String where humans are confined to one isolated city.

The new data also give scientists clues to a long - standing mystery about the atmospheres of giant outer planets.

So any really strong signal of global warming on outer planets like Jupiter or especially Pluto, if real, are very unlikely to be due to the Sun.

NASA's Outer Planets Assessment Group generates ideas and gives advice on exploring the outer solar system.

The Planetary Society is hosting space scientists, experts, and partner organizations to highlight the future of outer planets exploration after the end of the Cassini mission at Saturn.

Neptune has a ring system, just like all the giant gaseous outer planets.

Research like this is important because it focuses on questions we can definitively answer, like whether or not Europa is inhabitable,» said Curt Niebur, Outer Planets Program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

While mostly focused on Mars, MSSS scientists have also studied and have research backgrounds in various aspects of Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, asteroids, and outer planet satellites and rings.

The NASA - ESA Cassini - Huygens mission is the most recent outer planets flagship mission.

The work is funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA's Outer Planets Research and Planetary Geology and Geophysics Programs.

As those giant outer planets grew, their powerful gravity flung much of that debris outward.

The solar system's giant outer planets appear to have sculpted the asteroid belt as they settled into their current orbits

Gladman speculates that the giant outer planets captured passing chunks of rock or ice while the solar system was forming.

When the dogged sky sleuth Clyde Tombaugh discovered it in 1930, he expected a massive world capable of disturbing the orbits of the giant outer planets Uranus and Neptune.

She is a Principal Investigator in NASA's «Origins of Solar Systems», «Planetary Geology and Geophysics», «Outer Planets Fundamental Research», and LASER programs and NSF's «Planetary Astronomy» program.

Useful for launching larger interplanetary science payloads such as Asteroid Redirect Mission, Mars Sample Return, Jupiter Europa Orbiter, Saturn / Titan Sample Return, Ice Giant Exploration, Outer Planet Sample Return, Large Telescopes and In - Space Infrastructres.

Lead study author Fabio Feng of the University of Hertfordshire told Gizmodo that we should be cautious defining the habitable zone of exoplanets, but he said he regards the two outer planets as «habitable zone candidates,» especially since their orbital periods are not precisely known.

If NASA's Human Outer Planets Exploration program takes place in the 2040s as hoped, there could be good infrastructure for space and time tourism by the year 2117.

All 4 outer planets play a crucial role in solar AM, remove just one of them and the Sun would be in a very different place.

Are large radius, narrowly confined rings the signposts of outer planet formation?

Another part of his proposal is to build a scale model of the solar system within Manhattan, with a model of the sun in Battery Park, inner planets throughout downtown and midtown, and outer planets in the Bronx.

During a presentation at NASA's Outer Planets Assessment Group in 2013, Hofstadter stressed the significance of mounting a mission to the ice giants.

Farther out, well away from the sun's warmth, gases like hydrogen and helium failed to vaporize and instead accumulated to form the gaseous outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus.

Due to the approximate alignment of the magnetic axis with the rotation axis, the energetic particle losses due to the moons are expected to be much more pronounced than the ones in the other outer planets (Roussos et al. 2007).

Worked in Class -100 cleanroom fabricating Micro Electro - Mechanical Systems for missions to the solar system's primitive bodies and outer planet satellites.

The NASA plan also calls for completely rethinking the agency's outer planets exploration plans, canceling both a mission to Pluto and one to Jupiter's moon Europa until researchers can come up with more workable plans.

«Europa continues to reveal itself as a dynamic world with compelling similarities to our own planet Earth,» said Curt Niebur, Outer Planets program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Today, there are four giant outer planets.

The pattern is similar in its gross dynamics to the story of how astronomers and physicists deduced the existence of the outer planets and subatomic particles.

The collection will help scientists to better understand not only how the atmospheres of the outer planets function, but also the atmospheres of Earth and planets beyond the solar system.

The Jupiter maps, first in series of annual portraits of the outer planets, also reveal rare wave structures that scientists haven't seen for nearly 40 years.

Six planets orbit a star roughly the size of the sun, and like our solar system, the outer planets are gas giants while the inner ones seem to be denser.

The new maps of Jupiter are the first created under the outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, which will provide Hubble with time each year to study the outer planets.

New evidence indicates that the outer planets may have migrated to their present orbits

55 Cancri's outer planet, for example, has an orbital period of 14 years, and was therefore only discovered in 2004.

This new image from the largest planet in the Solar System, Jupiter, was made during the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) programme.