Sentences with phrase «produced by the planet»

Planet Wise Wet Bag and Wet / Dry Bags are produced by Planet Wise, Inc., a privately owned company run by husband and wife team, Jesse and Nicki Maynard.
And in the future, a technique called optical interferometry, which links together the observations of more than one telescope, might make it possible to see the multiple lensed images produced by the planets of another star system.
One of the team's achievements was to separate the signal caused by the star's activity from the signal produced by the planet.
They must have been produced by planet - wide alteration, presumably implying there must have been volumes of water.
An analysis of the transit signature produced by the planet Kepler - 93b, which appears with a period of 4.72673978 + / -9.7 x10 ^ -7 days, returns a consistent but less precise measurement of the stellar density, 1.72 +0.02 - 0.28 g / cm ^ 3.

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As part of the series — produced by Darren Aronofsky and narrated by superstar Will Smith — several astronauts give personal anecdotes and perspectives about the planet based on a place few humans who have actually visited outer space.
Which is at least a bit strange, in that it was an artifact produced by the much - deplored military - industrial complex» the photographs of Planet Earth taken by the astronauts of Apollo VIII on their Christmas 1968 circumnavigation of the moon» that gave the new environmentalism its icon and something of its emotional power.
So would you prefer this: an unknown source says something in the media produced by someone apparently living on this planet may have caused some strong feelings among some yet to be identified crowds of unknown sizes to be engaged in possibly some distrubances which may have occured in some distant land...
Mormon theology teaches that God is only one of countless gods, that he used to be a man on another planet, that he became a god by following the laws and ordinances of that god on that world, and that he brought one of his wives to this world with whom he produces spirit children who then inhabit human bodies at birth.
This takes the widely accepted fact that the strength of basic forces of the universe, as measured by fundamental physical constants, are exactly right, and «fine - tuned», for a development upon the Big Bang which produced planets like ours, fit for the evolution of life.
At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.
Other fond memories include an organic fingerling potato pizza with the thinnest crust on the planet, dipping our toes in Lake Michigan, finally getting to see pieces by Henry Darger, magnificent architecture, Bucktown, uncomplicated subway, Hendrickx Belgian bakery, and snacking on all the lovely produce after a long day of walking around, with blisters.
As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.
Further calculations by Catling and his team conclude that no abiotic methane sources on a rocky planet could produce enough of the gas to counteract this process — whether it is volcanic outgassing from a planet's interior, chemical reactions in hydrothermal vents, even asteroid impacts.
But with our planet as their guide, astrobiologists are forced to acknowledge that oxygen may be the least likely thing they will ever see — genetic evidence suggests the complex oxygen - producing photosynthetic pathway pioneered by cyanobacteria is an extraordinary evolutionary innovation that only appeared once throughout the entire multi-billion-year history of Earth's biosphere.
The technology, called carbon capture and storage, or CCS, collects planet - warming carbon pollution produced by power plants and permanently removes it from circulation.
The key finding is that by varying pressure and temperature on only one type of composition, we could produce the variety of material found on the planet's surface.
A sperm whale's click is by far the loudest sound produced by any organism on the planet.
Hydrates have shaped the history of our planet: by locking away methane produced in the earth's crust instead of allowing it to accumulate in the atmosphere, they helped to make the earth a hospitable place for life.
Like many planets and most stars, Earth produces its own magnetic field by dynamo action, i.e. because of the motion of an electrically conducting fluid - in this case, a mixture of molten iron and nickel.
By the time Webb is operational, Clampin says, another NASA mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), slated for launch in 2017, will already be producing a short list of other potentially habitable rocky planets around nearby small stars.
Many young stars known to host planets also possess disks containing dust and icy grains, particles produced by collisions among asteroids and comets also orbiting the star.
If Proxima b proves to have an atmosphere, Loeb and Kreidberg have also proposed using Webb to probe for the infrared signature of ozone in Proxima Centauri's glare as a possible sign that the planet's air is filled with oxygen — something that, on Earth, is mostly produced by life.
Planetary scientists think magnetic fields are produced by the churning of a planet's molten iron core.
The moon may carry material produced by life from Earth dating back to when plants first filled the planet's air with oxygen, according to study of data from a Japanese lunar orbiter.
This research will contribute to a once - per - decade report on the field of astrophysics, produced by the National Academies, that NASA uses to help chart a course for future missions, some of which could continue the search for planets around other stars, known as exoplanets.
Vogt's group, led by Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California at Berkeley, has already detected more than 100 planets this way, but the tugs produced by small, Earth - like worlds are particularly elusive.
So the original 6 pounds of carbon combine with 15 or 16 pounds of oxygen, minus some soot, water, and other by - products, and, bingo, by driving 21 miles down the road, my car has just disturbed the balance of the planet's carbon cycle by producing 19 pounds of CO2.
Understanding the two phenomena, which are both produced by interactions between charged particles and the planet's magnetic field, may help to explain the variations in the timing of the radio pulses and to shed light on Saturn's geomagnetic workings.
About half the heat produced by Earth is thought to come from internal nuclear reactions, the other half from heat left over from Earth's earliest days as a red - hot planet.
Produced by the burning of fossil fuels in power plants and car engines, carbon dioxide continues to accumulate in the atmosphere, warming the planet.
By separating out the starlight from the planet light, we can identify molecules in the planet's atmosphere and look for gases produced by life, like oxygen, ozone and ammoniBy separating out the starlight from the planet light, we can identify molecules in the planet's atmosphere and look for gases produced by life, like oxygen, ozone and ammoniby life, like oxygen, ozone and ammonia.
The x-rays are most likely produced by ions crashing into the planet's atmosphere, but the spot's surprising location has researchers wondering where the ions come from.
Any methane produced by organisms billions of years ago could be buried deep in the planet and periodically disturbed and vented to the surface through cracks, said mission scientist Sushil Atreya of the University of Michigan.
This means that the innermost gap could have been produced by something other than an emerging planet.
Such scaremongering is especially painful to me because even though I do not think that government - approved GMO foods pose meaningful health risks to consumers, and even though I believe strategic genetic engineering can be an important tool to ease human suffering on our warming and resource - constrained planet, I share the concerns of many environmentalists about the homogenization and consolidation of the global food system — trends that are accelerated by the spread of industrially produced GMOs.
The findings, in the July 28 Nature, suggest that the origin of the 30 trillion to 45 trillion watts of heat produced by the earth's interior is about evenly divided between radioactive decay and leftover heat from the planet's molten formation.
Volcanism, Misra said, may help distinguish between oxygen that is produced by life or other planetary processes by helping astronomers better understand the planet's environment.
Such radiowaves would be produced by rocks of about a centimetre in size, suggesting this is a band of pebbles which will, sometime in the next few million years, coalesce into a planet.
Our planet was once dominated by methane - producing microorganisms, resulting in an unusual combination of methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which would not have arisen naturally.
Life is the dominant source of the molecular oxygen on our planet, as the gas is produced by photosynthesis in plants and microscopic, single - cell organisms.
An X-ray spectrometer onboard the spacecraft measured the X-ray radiation from the planet's surface, produced by solar flares on the sun, to determine the chemical composition of more than 5,800 lava deposits on Mercury's surface.
(see Graphic) The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines two years ago produced a cooling of the planet that «may be the largest global climate perturbation of the century», according to a new assessment by the American climatologist James Hansen.
Detections by the transit method are contaminated to a large extent by «false positives», produced by sources other than transiting planets.
Even if a gap in the disk is created by a sufficiently massive protoplanet (0.1 Jupiter - mass), most planets produced may still fall into the star (as «torques» between the planet and the inner and outer gap edges causes the planet and its gap to flow inward along with the viscous disk material towards the star).
Located between the orbits of Mercury and Earth, Venus has a very thick atmosphere that is covered by a layer of clouds that produces a «greenhouse effect» on the planet.
The transit depth of only 0.15 % means that it is too shallow to have been detected by WASP (which can do 0.2 — 0.3 % at best), especially given the 11.8 - day orbit, which means that it produces fewer transits than shorter - period planets.
The other new discovery, HD 286123b (which had also been independently found by Brahm et al), is a larger and more massive planet producing a 0.8 % dip.
For example, more than 30 sets of binary stars (two stars orbiting their common center of mass) have one or more planets orbiting each star.12 The rapidly changing gravity fields produced by each binary star would have prevented any orbiting cloud of dust and gas from collapsing into one planet.
If there is life on any Earth - type planet orbiting youthful Vega, it is likely to be primitive single - cell, anaerobic (non-oxygen producing) bacteria under constant bombardment by meteorites and comets as Earth was for the first billion years.
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