Sentences with phrase «own planetary environment»

The transfer of this life to earth Many scientists have objected that the generation of life can not occur, or have occurred, outside of a planetary environment, where heavier elements are plentiful.

The culture in which the global society finds its cohesion needs to be able to draw all human groups and individuals into some form of shared life, a degree of commonality that allows for harmony between peoples and also with the planetary environment.

... If our politicians were realists, they would think rather less about missiles and the problem of landing astronauts on the moon, rather more about hunger and moral squalor and the problem of enabling three billion men, women, and children, who will soon be six billions, to lead a tolerably human existence without, in the process, ruining and befouling their planetary environment.

At this point it must be recognized that the interdependence of all life in relationship to the planetary environment places special obligations and limitations on the present generation.

Men must think of the whole range of biosocial conditions which pertain to the realization of the potentialities of individuals in a justly ordered society living in harmonious union with the planetary environment.

The effect also illustrates one proposal for so - called geoengineering — the deliberate, large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment — that would use various means to create such sulfuric acid aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and thereby hopefully forestall catastrophic climate change.

Another way is, here we are in the solar system with all its variations in planetary environments, and if we don't find life, that's going to be a downer.»

The goal is geoengineering, or the «deliberate, large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment» in the words of the Royal Society of London, which provides scientific advice to policymakers.

Although no region of Mars is banned for exploration, international treaties set the allowable levels of microbial contamination on robotic spacecraft destined for other planetary environments.

The paper is titled «Processing of meteoritic organic materials as a possible analog of early molecular evolution in planetary environments,» and is co-authored by Pizzarello, geologist Lynda Williams, NMR specialist Gregory Holland and graduate student Stephen Davidowski, all from ASU.

Due to these phenomena, there is an increasing need for an overall effort to understand, monitor and potentially predict (to the extent that the latter is possible) the actual conditions around the planetary environment under investigation.

Comparisons of the Kuiper belt with the debris disks around other stars provide important indications about both the Kuiper belt itself and the planetary environment around other stars.

Relatively long wavelength photons (> 90 nm) cause, in general, dissociation, whereas shorter ones cause ionization (Seki et al. 2015), with efficiencies depending on the atmospheric species in each planetary environment.

Working at Goddard Space Flight Center's Planetary Environments Laboratory as a bio-geochemist and geologist with an interest in astrobiology, Dr. Eigenbrode is part of the research team working with MSL's Science Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument testing the chemistry of Martian rocks, sediments and ice and looking for organic and inorganic compounds.

The prospects for the habitability of M - dwarf planets have long been debated, due to key differences between the unique stellar and planetary environments around these low - mass stars, as compared to hotter, more luminous Sun - like stars.

Similar platforms could even observe Earth, «enabling real - time detailed persistent observation,» said Craig Underwood, head of the planetary environments group at the Surrey Space Center.

Our observations reveal the planetary worlds of our solar system, and increase our knowledge what / how is habitable planetary environment and its evolution?

Big stars explode and leave a buildup of the heavy elements responsible for the creation of the planetary environments in which life in the Universe has become possible.

The judging panel will select their favourite robot and planetary environment.

I'm looking forward to spending some more time with this one and discovering what mysteries await as I continue to explore forma.8's foreboding and hostile planetary environment.

Through Gupta's painterly treatment, the ruptured bottoms begin to resemble celestial beings, with their surfaces resembling planetary environments.

Herber uses cardboard to create paintings that are also three dimensional, dealing with the impact of the «anthropocene»: the period of human impact on the planetary environment.

Surely geologists should be able to understand how different time scales affect the planetary environment.

Some argue that humanity can now survive, and even thrive, in a rapidly destabilizing planetary environment, but that is a belief system based on supreme technological optimism, and is not a reasoned scientifically informed judgment.

To see that we are changing our own planetary environment and that forms of life may be changing concurrently is more then disturbing.

It was enough to feel that an eerie toxic smog threatened the entire planetary environment.

Brulle's claims were cited by environmentalists and news media around the world as evidence of an immense conspiracy, concocted by oil and coal companies and their allies to attain great wealth by ruining the planetary environment.

And to maintain or slightly increase planetary temperature is also very much a global good if — as Ruddiman and other scientists assert — the human production of greenhouse gases is helping to hold our planetary environment in its historic, benignly warm, interglacial mode.»

We are then likely caught in the need for geo - engineering for the foreseeable future, and if we stop because of a decline in our civilization (dark age) then we face a radically different planetary environment that could pound us down further.

By taking the model to a different planetary environment, extreme climate conditions are magnified and inaccuracies not previously known are detected,» said Del Genio.

In combination, these two research efforts add to the massive amount of scientific evidence that climate change is always occurring; and, most definitely does not require human consumer / industrial greenhouse gases to produce significant impacts on planetary environments and those associated civilizations.

The authors» argue that early life may perform a vital regulating function on an early planetary environment by impacting both the planet's albedo (how much light it reflects from the sun) and the greenhouse gases present in its atmosphere.

Not exact matches

«Our goal is to have a space environment that is populated by people acting responsibly,» said Peter Marquez, vice president for global engagement at Planetary Resources.

Within the continuum of planetary life there have evolved many interconnected systems, each of them in symbiotic relationship with its environment.

The new results from SPHERE, along with data from other telescopes such as ALMA, are revolutionising astronomers» understanding of the environments around young stars and the complex mechanisms of planetary formation.

The sun's birth environment couldn't have been too crowded, the logic went, because planetary systems, like ours, could never survive the gravitational jostling of neighboring stars in urban clusters.

«It would be good to define planetary boundaries at multiple scales — local, regional and global,» adds ecologist Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota and a co-author of the planetary boundaries concept.

«This was a hostile, stressful environment for these organisms,» said Oleg Abramov, a planetary scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., who was not involved with planetary scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., who was not involved with Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., who was not involved with the work.

Instead, it has been there for hundreds of years,» said Hassanzadeh, who is a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard's Center for the Environment and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, ventures to some of Earth's most extreme environments to study the closest facsimiles he can find to Mars and other distant outposts, on a mission to learn how life might exist beyond our planet.

The Rockefeller Foundation yesterday also pledged $ 15 million for planetary health, adding to the $ 200 million spent over the past five years on other public health and environment initiatives.

She covers space, planetary science, the environment, and interesting animals.

Volcanism, Misra said, may help distinguish between oxygen that is produced by life or other planetary processes by helping astronomers better understand the planet's environment.

With entry categories for science / healthcare workers and the under 25s as well as professional and amateur photographers, the competition is an opportunity to stimulate an interest in any area of science, from planetary movements to cellular signalling or more general topics such as physics or the environment, as well as demonstrating artistic flair.

New research using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes mission helps resolve decades of scientific uncertainty over the origin of ultra-relativistic electrons in Earth's near space environment, and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the universe.

«To be able to directly image planetary birth environments around other stars at orbital distances comparable to the solar system is a major advancement,» said Dr Nikku Madhusudhan of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy, one of the paper's co-authors.

Governments and private companies alike abide by Article IX of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which calls for planetary exploration to avoid contaminating both the visited environment and Earth.

Spacecraft instruments will gather continuous data on the interplanetary environment where the planetary system orbits, including measurements of the high - energy particles streaming from the sun and dust - particle concentrations in the inner reaches of the Kuiper Belt.

«We've shown that cropland recycles less water annually back into the atmosphere than native Cerrado vegetation,» said Stephanie Spera, a graduate student at Brown University in the department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science and a researcher at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES).

Planetary astronomers hope to better understand how dark vortices originate, what controls their drifts and oscillations, how they interact with the environment, and how they eventually dissipate, according to UC Berkeley doctoral student Joshua Tollefson, who was recently awarded a prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship to study Neptune's atmosphere.