Sentences with phrase «planetary environment»

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

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

Star formation is the mechanism which controls the structure and evolution of galaxies, the buildup of heavy elements in the Universe, which is responsible for the creation of planetary environments in which life is possible.

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.

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.

It is conceivable that forms of life exist in different planetary environments that are totally different from Earth.

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.

«Now we want to find out just how dusty and obscured planetary environments are, and how difficult the planets will be to image.»

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.

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.

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.

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

Now researchers have begun testing modern microbes to see if they could act as pioneers in the harsh conditions of extraterrestrial space and other planetary environments.

Most early planetary environments are unstable.

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.

And what compounding numbers of bottles (and plastic bags) will be in our planetary environment in that time - frame?

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.

«Early Mars is unique in the sense that it's the one planetary environment, outside Earth, where we can say with confidence that there were at least episodic periods where life could have flourished,» said Robin Wordsworth, assistant professor of environmental science and engineering at SEAS, and first author of the paper.

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.

«Volcanic gases often react with and destroy oxygen, and a detection of both oxygen and volcanism suggests that there is a source of oxygen in the planetary environment, which could be life,» Misra said.

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.

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.

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.

Star Citizen will be using a combination of procedural generation and pre-built assets to create its planetary environments, which is the only feasible way to create such vast landscapes.

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.

Instead, it's become the first viable arena for large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment.

The Royal Society defines geoengineering as «the deliberate large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment to counteract anthropogenic climate change.»

The planetary environment has been changed where human populations are densest but in terms of the entire planet the damage is not overwhelming and where damage has occurred the natural environment does tend to recover if left alone.

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.»

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 the meantime we will just have to accept a degree of deterioration in the planetary environment because the alternative is far worse, being more likely to defer indefinitely the eventual ideal of worldwide sustainability.

For those who are unaware, geoengineering is — as defined by the Royal Society in 2009 as: «the deliberate large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment to counteract anthropogenic climate change.»