Sentences with phrase «planetary conditions»

The models can be used to create (or simulate) endlessly variable planetary conditions.

The 3 - D X-ray imaging technique and simulated planetary conditions that NASA is enlisting at the ALS provide the best pictures yet of the behavior of the internal 3 - D microstructure of spacecraft materials.

He enlisted research on early planetary conditions to show how interactions between the atmosphere and oceans might have produced an organic «primordial soup.»

(That's billion with a Q.) In this impossibly vast universe, planets run the gamut from dead planets to garden planets, every animal is a platypus of scales, hoofs, wings and tentacles, and every geological outcropping and piece of plant life has evolved to survive less in harsh planetary conditions and more on the covers of mid-20th century sci - fi novels.

Even if the GOE was our only evidence for the potential planetary impact of biological life, the transformation of Earth's atmosphere is proof that biology can absolutely alter planetary conditions.

So it is quite possible that in the comparative geological instant of a century, planetary conditions will be transformed to a state unlike anything that most of the world's modern species have encountered.