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As the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) launched a space probe early this morning from the Russian Kosmodrom in Baikonur, Kazakhstan to study trace gases in the Martian atmosphere, a planetary scientist from Western University eagerly watched online from his home in London, Ont.

«It's a very insightful paper that has a very good explanation for some of the curious observations Phoenix had made,» said Michael Mischna, a planetary scientist from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA in Pasadena, California, who was not involved in the study.

Not exact matches

Planetary scientist Heather Meyer, now at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, used data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to...

In a breakthrough study, an international team of scientists, including Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from the University of Leicester, has solved an age - old scientific riddle by discovering that planetary rings, such as those orbiting Saturn, have a universally similar particle distribution.

But planetary scientists reviewing data from the Galileo orbiter mission have recently found something almost comfortingly familiar: anvil - shaped clouds that seem to be Jovian thunderheads.

It will demonstrate that Canada is a reliable partner in planetary exploration missions of the future, and more importantly, Canadian scientists will benefit from this wonderful opportunity.

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.

From Identical to Evil Planetary scientists still have to sort out exactly how Venus reached the point of no return.

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).

The planetary scientists weren't hoping to fill their coffers with the revenue from the sale; instead, they offered free sweets in return for signatures on letters beseeching Congress to reverse the cuts.

Scientists propose a list of planetary boundaries for human impacts ranging from biodiversity loss to the global nitrogen cycle

But for planetary scientists, Jupiter's most distinctive mystery may be what's called the «energy crisis» of its upper atmosphere: how do temperatures average about as warm as Earth's even though the enormous planet is more than fives times further away from the sun?

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.

Meteorite fragments from the Red Planet can hold traces of Martian life, says planetary scientist Colin Pillinger — and you can win one in our exclusive competition

The annual Texas gathering of planetary scientists featured new research from across the solar system, as well as a good deal of anger directed at politicians looking to cut back on planetary exploration

One bid for preservation initiated in 2009 by 29 scientists from around the world focused on the concept of planetary boundaries.

A cry for help has come from planetary scientists pleading for a Next Mars Orbiter — or NeMO for short.

Reviewing this recent work in the Dec. 4 Science, planetary scientists Benjamin Weiss of MIT and Sonia Tikoo of the University of California, Berkeley conclude that this magnetic field originated from flowing material inside the moon.

The probe sent back more data than giddy planetary scientists had ever had before, but the thrill of the mission came less from what it told them about Mercury than from the inkling it gave them of what they had yet to learn.

A team led by planetary scientist Philippe Lamy of the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale in Marseilles, France, used the Hubble Space Telescope in March to measure the light reflected from the comet.

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.

It has collected five of the 18 specimens identified as coming from Mars, including the specimen ALH84001, collected in 1984 and made famous in 1996 when NASA investigators suggested that secondary materials in the cracks of the meteorite might have been created through processes involving life — although most planetary scientists now think otherwise.

More acreage was converted to growing crops between 1950 and 1980, than from 1700 to 1850, and arable land is one of nine «planetary boundaries» that scientists have identified — limits past which humanity should fear to tread.

This makes this roadmap a transdisciplinary document of relevance for many communities, from astronomers to planetary scientists and from atmospheric physicists to life scientists.

The eastern part of Ligeia Mare averages from 20 to 40 meters in depth, says Alexander Hayes, a Cornell University planetary scientist who reported the discovery November 10 at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciencesplanetary scientist who reported the discovery November 10 at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary SciencesPlanetary Sciences meeting.

Now, researchers estimate the comet will pass about 131,000 kilometers from the Red Planet on 19 October, says John Moores, a planetary scientist at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco provides a fantastic survey of what we have learned from the famous exploration mission in «Cassini at Saturn.»

There, the microscopically small grains of rock from the core are catapulted along with ice particles into space, where they were measured by the instruments on the Cassini space probe,» explained the Heidelberg planetary scientist.

Simon Kattenhorn, a geologist previously at the University of Idaho in Moscow, and Louise Prockter, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, made the finding after combing through pictures from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.

The new definition, which does not require approval from a central governing body, is also more useful to planetary scientists.

A new analysis by geophysicist Steven Ward and planetary scientist Erik Asphaug of the University of California, Santa Cruz, concludes that the biggest tsunami hazard arises from asteroids between 30 and a few hundred meters across, which may strike the ocean every 1000 to 100,000 years.

Also planned for September is the inaugural flight of the Observatory for Planetary Investigations from the Stratosphere (OPIS)-- a notable event because so few planetary scientists have in the past employed less - expensive balloon craft to fly their insPlanetary Investigations from the Stratosphere (OPIS)-- a notable event because so few planetary scientists have in the past employed less - expensive balloon craft to fly their insplanetary scientists have in the past employed less - expensive balloon craft to fly their instruments.

Together, the studies finger Phoebe as a likely relic from the distant swarm of frozen cometary bodies called the Kuiper Belt, says planetary scientist J. Brad Dalton of the SETI Institute at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

Planetary scientists expect that mixtures of dust and ice turn black after billions of years of irradiation by photons and high - energy particles from the sun, but they don't yet know the details of that composition.

The Cassini spacecraft swinging through orbits around Saturn and its satellites has been sending back extraordinary pictures of its own, particularly from the moon Enceladus, and if they are less famous among most of the public, they may be no less inspirational to planetary scientists.

«This process may be making a lot of the stuff of life, without any help from things that are alive,» says John Rummel, senior scientist for astrobiology for NASA's Planetary Science Division, who was not involved in the study.

Two of the most provocative speeches came from planetary scientist Christopher McKay of NASA Ames Research Center and physicist Paul Davies of Arizona State University.

Images from the Deep Space 1 spacecraft show that Comet Borrelly is the darkest object yet observed in the inner solar system, and several spots on its surface are blacker than anything planetary scientists have ever seen.

More recent images from the infrared WISE satellite, however, let planetary scientist Douglas Hamilton, of the University of

«We're the first measurement from the martian surface,» says Christopher Webster, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and lead author of the new study.

Zooniverse's Exoplanet Explorers project invites citizen scientists to scour data from the Kepler spacecraft - within two days they found a planetary system

What planetary scientists lump together as asteroids are far too diverse — from boulders to floating heaps of gravel to mini planets with signs of past volcanic activity and even liquid water — to have a single common origin.

Planetary scientists had long wondered whether its plains were made of hardened lava, for example, and whether its towering escarpments resulted from the cooling and contracting of the planet's core.

The strongest evidence for methane comes from a team led by Michael Mumma, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Many planetary scientists use magnetic - field radio emissions as a way to calculate the rotation period, because those emissions are assumed to originate from deep within the planet's interior, where the rotation period is more constant.

Overall, the scientists calculate that this animal - powered, planetary pump may have dropped to just six percent of its former capacity to spread nutrients away from concentrated sources on both land and sea.

The 30 - year - old planetary scientist has many passions, from the social commentary of Dostoyevsky to the lyrics of Metallica, but none measure up to her obsession with alien life.

Planetary scientist Will Grundy of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., and colleagues used images of Charon taken by the New Horizons spacecraft and computational analysis to demonstrate that methane from Pluto is a reasonable culprit for Charon's rust - colored pole.

«From what we know, Mars did have life and oceans and a thick atmosphere,» says NASA planetary scientist Christopher McKay.