Sentences with phrase «planetary scientists at»

During those eight years, some 6,000 moonquakes, including dozens not previously detected, rumbled deep within the satellite, say planetary scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

A THIN plating of metallic compounds may explain puzzling radar reflections from the mountains on Venus, say planetary scientists at Washington University in Saint Louis.

In January, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two planetary scientists at the California Institute of Technology, speculated on the existence of a ninth planet based on an odd alignment of six distant icy bodies.

«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

The robot's main camera, called JunoCam, will beam back new images of the Great Red Spot around July 14, Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute and the Juno mission's leader, said in an email to Business Insider.

«This is evidence of a big shakeup early on in the solar system's formation,» Glenn Orton, a co-author of the new study and a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Business Insider.

One of those researchers, Renee Weber, a lunar and planetary scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, detected hundreds of new moonquakes in the old data.

«This is a pretty secure detection,» says Ralph Lorenz, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md..

But ice shouldn't be stable at Ceres's surface, says Andy Rivkin, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Previous studies have suggested that electric fields generated during the early stages of a sandstorm would have that effect, but nobody had made field measurements to support the idea, says Francesca Esposito, a planetary scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Naples, Italy.

«Some of the numbers we've been operating on date back decades, and it'd be great to revisit them,» says Sarah Johnson, a planetary scientist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C..

«A history of Venus is stored in the atmosphere,» says Larry Esposito, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

To Alberto Fairén, a planetary scientist at Cornell University, that makes no sense.

Horst Uwe Keller, a planetary scientist at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany, and the former principal investigator for the Rosetta camera, says that it is too early to say whether the dinosaur eggs are truly fundamental building blocks.

A new mission would likely head for Encke, a comet described as «evolved, degassed, used - up, and as old as possible» by Contour mission leader Joseph Veverka, a planetary scientist at Cornell University.

The craters may be up to 4 billion years old, from a time when asteroids were heavily bombarding the early Solar System, says team member William McKinnon, a planetary scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, also wants to see more evidence.

«We can now start with a pretty simple disk, pretty simple physics, and reproduce the outer solar system — and that's never been done before,» says Hal Levison, a planetary scientist at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who led the study.

Dione's ocean is about 100 kilometers below the surface and roughly 65 kilometers deep, Mikael Beuthe, a planetary scientist at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, and colleagues report.

Essam Marouf, a planetary scientist at San José State University in California, reported on the first results from a separate radar experiment that sent radar reflections to Earth instead of back to the spacecraft.

Squyres, a planetary scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, is also the lead investigator for NASA's long - lived Opportunity Mars rover (although he says he plans to step down from that role if CAESAR is selected for flight).

«There's been a crying need to go back to Jupiter and actually study Jupiter,» says Jonathan Lunine, a planetary scientist at Cornell University.

«It's important work,» says Christopher McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. «This is a move toward more realism in terms of what the conditions were on early Earth.»

«This is terra incognita for planetary scientists,» says Leigh Fletcher, a planetary scientist at the University of Leicester in England.

«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.

The results are «unexpected» and «exciting,» says Sarah Stewart, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the study.

Led by Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, the Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability (ELSAH) mission would fly through a plume to seek out signs of biology lurking within the tiny moon.

«We've only found simple organic molecules so far,» says Ashwin Vasavada, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who leads Curiosity's science team.

Hörst, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, began studying Titan's chemistry after the NASA Cassini probe detected complex organic molecules in the atmosphere.

«My scientific life is tied to this spacecraft, to this mission,» says Luciano Iess, a planetary scientist at the Sapienza University of Rome who has led Cassini's radio experiment since 1990.

That double detection gives Alexander Hayes, a planetary scientist at Cornell, extra confidence.

David Stevenson, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and one of the theorists who originally proposed the mechanism of helium rain, said in an email that it's always good to get experimental confirmation of a theory.

«That's like having four people standing on your shoulders,» says Fran Bagenal, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder.

«We're going to see beneath the cloud tops for the very first time,» says Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and head of the Juno mission.

Simone Marchi, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, did find traces of large impact basins comparable to Tombaugh Regio in Dawn's data.

According to Michael Wong, a planetary scientist at the University of California in Berkeley, the overarching takeaway from these new images is how relatively blinkered most of our earlier views have been.

Imke de Pater, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Berkeley who was not involved in the studies, says the new gravity measurements should allow scientists to get a better handle on the structure of the planet's core.

«We didn't see microbes,» says Hunter Waite, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, and the lead author of a study published this week in Science.

«If we're right, oceans in the outer solar system are common, and other objects of similar size to Pluto there probably also have subsurface oceans,» says Francis Nimmo, a lead author of one of the studies and planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

But now, data gathered during five of Cassini's final 22 passes before it plunged into the planet are bringing the mass of the B ring into focus, Luciano Iess, a planetary scientist at the Sapienza University of Rome, announced at the AGU meeting today.

«We went in with a preconceived notion of how Jupiter worked, and I would say we have to eat some humble pie,» says Juno mission leader Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

«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 the work.

When at sea, we were treated to some 25 sessions with a diverse faculty, including Larry Cahill, neurobiologist at the University of California, Irvine; Robert Fovell, atmospheric and oceanic scientist at U.C.L.A.; James Gillies, head of communications at CERN; Peter Smith, professor emeritus of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona; and David Stevenson, planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology.

Now Chad Trujillo, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology, and his colleague Mike Brown have identified a massive hunk of rock and ice that is nearly 800 miles across, the largest minor planet ever discovered in the solar system.

The bitterly cold temperatures that make Titan so forbidding for life in some ways make it more intriguing to people like Toby Owen, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaii and a Cassini coinvestigator.

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.

«I tell Frank to let me see every image he gets,» says Ann Sprague, a planetary scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

«I have always dreamed of going to Mars,» said Serina Diniega, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of a report published online by the journal Icarus.

«The answer is neither,» says David Stevenson, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology who leads the Juno team studying the planet's interior.

However, researchers don't really know the true hydrogen isotopic composition of Earth's water, says Lydia Hallis, a planetary scientist at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.