Sentences with phrase «says space scientist»

The findings should provide some «interesting food for thought» for NASA's new Solar Dynamics Observatory mission, says space scientist Scott McIntosh of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, also in Boulder.

The research amounts to a «reasonable and clever» way to determine why the beginning of the next solar cycle has been tardy, says space scientist Nancy Crooker of Boston University in Massachusetts.

That's up to 9 kilometers per second slower than the average for bigger objects that have hit Earth over its history, says space scientist and asteroid specialist William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

The evidence showed a magnetic «twisting that started fast and slowly decreased to almost nothing as the flare occurred,» says space scientist and lead author Alysha Reinard of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

The cost overrun could delay the planned 2014 launch of the complex spacecraft for as long as 3 years, say space scientists and congressional sources familiar with a report soon to be released by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D - MD).

Not exact matches

Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems at NASA, says the space agency already uses virtual reality technology in astronaut training and spacecraft simulations, so it was logical to extend that successful model to inspire and educate the next generation of space explorers and scientists.

Some scientists are reluctant to ring that bell just yet, saying there could be other reasons for the results, but one potential explanation of the latest results from a cosmic ray detector in space is that it is the first detection of the mysterious dark matter material that has eluded scientists» understanding for decades.

Now scientist say life must have come from outer space.

And when you get right down to it, her description of the science was not really that great either (which is not surprising, considering her experience in the space program was as an engineer, not a scientist), so it's wrong to say there is nothing wrong with her synopsis.

«The Veggie experiment is currently the only experiment we are supporting which involves evaluating the effects of plant life on humans in space,» Alexandra Whitmire, a scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, said in a press relspace,» Alexandra Whitmire, a scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, said in a press relSpace Center in Houston, said in a press release.

«The farther and longer humans go away from Earth, the greater the need to be able to grow plants for food, atmosphere recycling and psychological benefits,» said Gioia Massa, a scientist at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, in a press release.

In space, metal is not subject to the corrosion that occurs on Earth, says Luz Marina Calle, the lead corrosion scientist at nasa.

«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«A meteoroid impact on the LROC NAC reminds us that LRO is constantly exposed to the hazards of space,» says Noah Petro, deputy project scientist from NASA Goddard.

«Every scientist needs a working environment with adequate space to move around [in] and do experiments without infringing on the work of others,» he says.

«I've certainly been pitching this for 20 years, really from the beginning of BECs, when doing something like this in space seemed crazy,» says Robert Thompson, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and CAL's project scientist.

We find evidence for both models, suggesting that gamma - ray burst jets have a dual, hybrid nature,» said Troja, who is also a visiting research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist and modeler at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said this sort of research is useful for modelers, who can take these results and see whether they show up when they run their models.

«For a long time, comet missions did not have pizzazz,» says Benton Clark, chief scientist for space exploration systems at Lockheed Martin, near Denver.

«These findings demonstrate once again the value of studying the moon from orbit long - term,» said John Keller, the LRO project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

That is just par for the course with enormous, contractor - based projects, says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org and a former director of space policy for the Federation of American Scientists.

A team of 30 scientists from across the globe has put together a list of nine environmental processes that must remain within specific limits they say, or what they call «the safe operating space within which humankind can exist on Earth» will cease to be safe.

«The ice cores obtained through international collaborations were critical to the success of this study in that they allowed us to develop records from parts of Antarctica not often visited by U.S. - based scientists,» said co-author Tom Neumann of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who participated in a Norway - U.S. traverse that collected several of the cores used in this study.

«During the Apollo program this nation was in a race, and we perceived the outcome as important to national security,» says Lennard Fisk, former NASA chief scientist and a space science professor at the University of Michigan.

«This is not against fertilizer — there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it,» said Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and lead author of the study.

«Quantifying the sulfur dioxide bull's - eyes is a two - step process that would not have been possible without two innovations in working with the satellite data,» said co-author Nickolay Krotkov, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«Our study reports the first global, long - term trends of atmospheric ammonia from space,» said Juying Warner, as associate research scientist in atmospheric and oceanic science at UMD.

«About a third of the gamma - ray objects seen by Fermi remained unknown in the most recent catalog, and this result represents an important advance in understanding their natures,» said David Thompson, a Fermi deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«They found moondust in every nook and cranny,» says William Larson of the Kennedy Space Center, a lead scientist and program manager in NASA's efforts to develop techniques for using lunar resources.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

Colder temperatures and weaker high - altitude winds may make the arctic polar vortex even more intense in future winters and trigger greater ozone loss, says atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, although the losses probably won't approach those in Antarctica.

«Sometimes they'll happen and you'll have to be somewhere else on Earth to see them,» said Noah Petro, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Most [residents] of the continental United States will be able to see the whole thing.»

«Some of the most interesting sites will be those that offer fresh material — perhaps exposed by an impact, a crack or plume activity like comets have — and those with diverse material,» said Keiko Nakamura - Messenger, OSIRIS - REx sample site scientist and the deputy lead for curation at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

These outbound electrons don't reach peak speeds until they are a few thousand kilometers high, where the atmosphere is so thin that the particles rarely collide with gases and therefore don't glow, says FAST project scientist Robert Pfaff Jr. of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Recording these temperatures continuously can help scientists develop a detailed picture of the physics by which the ocean melts the ice shelves from below, says oceanographer Laurence Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.

Scientists say the Harris County Flood Control District, which manages thousands of miles of protective bayous, should focus more on preserving green space than building its way out of the problem.

«We have measured the ring directly,» says Nicolas Altobelli, Cassini's project scientist at the European Space Agency in Madrid.

«I don't think the stories of science fiction we read in childhood are ever going to happen,» says John Mather, a Nobel laureate who is now the senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, the $ 6.5 billion successor to the Hubble telescope that NASA plans to launch in 2018.

«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.

«Paula and I walked into her new lab space, and all the counters, hoods, and shelves were bare,» says the materials scientist at the Northborough, Massachusetts, R&D center of Saint - Gobain, the giant company based in France.

«Alice did its job perfectly, taking over 70,000 spectra in two years, providing a gold mine of data for comet scientists to study for years to come,» says Dr. Alan Stern, Alice principal investigator and an associate vice president of SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division.

It turns out that the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space - weather satellite with a controversial past, is answering those questions right now, says Stephen Kane, an exoplanet scientist at San Francisco State University in CalifoSpace Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space - weather satellite with a controversial past, is answering those questions right now, says Stephen Kane, an exoplanet scientist at San Francisco State University in Califospace - weather satellite with a controversial past, is answering those questions right now, says Stephen Kane, an exoplanet scientist at San Francisco State University in California.

«Scientists believe the molecules needed to make a cell's membrane, and thus for the origin of life, are all over space,» Allamandola says.

«You select areas where you have a lot of solar - type stars,» says Malcolm Fridlund, a project scientist for the European Space Agency (ESA).

Or perhaps the moon merged with another space rock that escaped Venus» orbit, says planetary scientist Raluca Rufu of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

«You don't necessarily have to have a «dirtier» snowpack to make it dark,» said lead author Marco Tedesco, a research professor at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and adjunct scientist at NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies.

«Our comet is coming out of its deep - space slumber and beginning to put on a show for Rosetta's science instruments,» said Matt Taylor, Rosetta's project scientist from the European Space Agency's Science and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlspace slumber and beginning to put on a show for Rosetta's science instruments,» said Matt Taylor, Rosetta's project scientist from the European Space Agency's Science and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The NetherlSpace Agency's Science and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

Data from WISE may generate proposals for telescope time on Herschel for more detailed follow - up observations, says Paul Goldsmith, project scientist for Herschel at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Goldsmith's JPL colleagues will manage ground operations for WISE; Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, designed and built its instrumentation, and Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft itself.)

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

«Combining literature, tree ring dating, and space observation, we have uncovered clear patterns in solar activity and astronomical events,» says Kyoto University space scientist Hiroaki Isobe.