Sentences with phrase «planetary scientists studying»

But in a recent paper with co-authors Dorian Abbot and Eliza Kempton in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Bean describes the need «to think about the techniques and approaches of astronomy in this game — not as planetary scientists studying exoplanets.»

Planetary scientists study Jupiter's red spots because their formation and fate help characterize the turbulence that roils the planet's atmosphere.

In the Solar System, the asteroid belt contains the leftover building blocks for the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, so planetary scientists study the asteroids to gain a better understanding of how rocky, and potentially habitable planets are formed.

Planetary scientists study chondritic meteorites to reconstruct planet formation.

Not exact matches

Not only do scientists need to find a place on Europa's surface that will be worth studying, they also need to find a place to land that won't completely destroy the lander upon touch down, Jim Green, NASA's Director of Planetary Science, told 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.

Scientists buoy our longing for clarity by enumerating laws and speaking of atoms and electrons, but, laments Camus even they are reduced to using the «poetry» of planetary systems, i.e., they Can not rationally seize the reality they study.

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.

Based on a culmination of ten years of research work, the new method to estimate more accurate distances between planetary nebulae and the Earth developed by HKU astronomers promises a new era in scientists» ability to study and understand the fascinating if brief period in the final stages of the lives of low - and mid-mass stars.

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.

«Agee and his collaborators have thrown open the door to a whole new part of Mars,» says planetary scientist Munir Humayun at Florida State University in Tallahassee, who was not involved in the study.

In 2004, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft first began orbiting Saturn and studying its moon Titan, Brigham Young University planetary scientist Jani Radebaugh was puzzled.

The new study helps scientists expand their knowledge of what might be possible on planetary bodies in our solar system, said Kelsi Singer, a postdoctoral researcher who studies icy worlds at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and was not involved with the new research.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — Planetary scientists who dream of probing for microbes on Jupiter's icy moon Europa are already studying similar settings on Earth.

«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.

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

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.

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.

To answer that last question in particular, «you have to fly between the planet and the rings,» says planetary scientist Matthew Hedman of the University of Idaho in Moscow, who uses Cassini data to study the rings.

«I like to say that if aliens sent a probe to Earth and it landed in the Sahara, they would conclude the Earth is all desert,» says planetary scientist Michael Wong of Caltech, who was not involved in the new study.

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.

Two recent studies show that the formation of planets may leave detectable chemical signatures in their host stars, a finding that could help scientists zero in on planetary systems even more quickly and speed the search for worlds similar to Earth.

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 dream of many a planetary scientist is a sample - return mission, bringing back a piece of another world, comet, or asteroid for study, as the Apollo missions did for the moon.

The findings help iron out a big wrinkle in the giant impact hypothesis, the only idea about the moon's origin that hasn't been shot down yet, says Harvard University planetary scientist Sarah Stewart, who was not involved with the study.

Planetary scientist Tony Del Genio of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies vaguely blames «impurities in the clouds.»

Participating in the conversation were Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education; Joan Steitz, a molecular biophysicist at Yale University who studies RNA; Shirley Malcom, head of the directorate for education and human resources at AAAS; and Sara Seager, a planetary scientist and physicist at MIT who studies the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system.

The Dawn probe has previously detected salts, ammonia - rich clays and water ice on Ceres, which together indicate hydrothermal activity, says study coauthor Carol Raymond, a planetary scientist

«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.

«UV radiation is continually destroying the methane,» says planetary scientist and co-author Anthony Del Genio of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, so all of the methane should have disappeared long ago, even accounting for rainfall.

So scientists studying this planetary system have determined that the low - density component must be something else that is abundant: water.

«The question will always be energy,» says Britney Schmidt, a planetary scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology who studies Europa as a possible habitat of life.

«A magnetic field protects the atmosphere of a planet or moon, and the atmosphere protects the surface,» says study coauthor Sonia Tikoo, a planetary scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. Together, the two protect the potential habitability of the planet or moon, possibly those far beyond our solar system.

Working with Berkeley Lab scientist Jill Banfield, a study co-author and also a professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the team used newly developed DNA - based methods to identify all of the genomes of the microbes that used the introduced oil for growth along with their specific genes that were responsible for oil degradation.

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.

In a complementary study, planetary scientists Terrence Johnson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Jonathan Lunine of the University of Arizona, Tucson, used Cassini data to calculate the relative proportions of rock and ice inside Phoebe.

«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.

«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.

The new study «provides a very compelling narrative,» says planetary scientist Matthew Hedman, also of Cornell.

A layer of iron and other elements deep underground is the evidence scientists have long been seeking to support the hypothesis that the moon was formed by a planetary object hitting the infant Earth some 4.5 billion years ago, a new study led by Johns Hopkins University scientists argues.

The orbits of exocomets on Beta Pictoris could also help scientists trace the presence and migration of larger, undetected bodies such as gas giant planets in the planetary system, says Russel White, an astronomer at Georgia State University in Atlanta who was not involved in the study.

«We're realizing that the early moon was a much more dynamic place than we thought,» says Jeffrey Andrews - Hanna, a planetary scientist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden and lead author of a new study of the Procellarum's geology.

«This study is very important because [dust devils] are a big source of dust in the atmosphere on Mars,» but the methods of counting them are «primitive,» says Jeffery Hollingsworth, a research scientist who models the martin climate at the NASA Ames Research Center Planetary Systems Branch in Moffett Field, California.

«Some of these planets are so hot in their upper atmospheres, they're essentially boiling off into space,» said Avi Mandell, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and a co-author of the study.

Zhang's coauthors are Darrell Strobel, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University and co-investigator on the New Horizons mission, and Hiroshi Imanaka, a scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, who studies the chemistry of haze particles in planetary atmospheres.

«The biological explanation is becoming less and less plausible,» says John Kerridge, a planetary scientist at the University of California at San Diego who is familiar with both studies.

Scott Murchie, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who has been studying the martian moons for more than a quarter - century, says the new work is valuable.