Sentences with phrase «possible habitability»

Yet the biggest concern regarding the possible habitability of Europa has been the apparent isolation of the ocean from the rest of the moon.

Until we have detected a larger number of them, the properties and possible habitability of the near-most planetary systems will remain mysterious.»

Ironically, however, the very evidence of possible habitability that makes human exploration more appealing also makes it more fraught.

Such a distant origin means that the fledgling Mars would have received far less sunlight than originally thought, a challenge to early Mars» possible habitability.

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So when we're surveying with something like Kepler, we should allow ourselves to think of habitability as broadly as possible, to think of life as being as capable as possible, and get some overall sense of how much habitable real estate might be out there.

Researchers agree that the bison data offer only an upper limit on the habitability of the ice - free corridor; it's possible that people could have used it before the bison.

Such an issue can play a significant role in identifying possible conditions for habitability, one of the main targets of the upcoming ESA JUICE mission.

Thus we have three stars and possible planets at markedly different stages of development, giving us the ability to take a deeper look into flare activity on M - dwarfs as they age, and to assess flare effects on planetary habitability, assuming Barnard's Star and Ross 154 do have planets.

Not long ago, while making a presentation about possible destinations for an interstellar probe, I called Gl 581d the most likely candidate for habitability yet discovered among nearby stars.

They find that much depends on how we set limits on the habitable zone, but in general habitability durations of a billion years are possible for planets within 2 - 3 Roche radii for brown dwarfs above 0.03 solar masses.

A series of spectacular discoveries in the last 50 years of entire terrestrial ecosystems, thriving on places that were previously thought to be too hostile to life, have similarly transformed our concept of habitability and the possible environments where life could take hold.

This new planet is a gas giant and definitely not habitable, but the possible universe of exoplanets that just might meet some of the basic criteria for habitability may well have grown.

Also about the habitability of earth for man and mammals as the wet - bulb temperature exceeds 26 C in larger areas, and the fossil fuel resources making this state possible in the long term.