Sentences with phrase «scientists getting the closest look»

The solar system's innermost planet may look like a dead ringer for Earth's moon, but the scientists getting the closest look ever at Mercury want you to know one thing: Mercury is not the moon.

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The model has allowed scientists to get a much closer look into the cellular interactions and biological behavior of M. genitalium, a very simple bacterium that is sexually transmitted between primates and can cause itching, burning or discharge.

Scientists typically assume that a fossilized dinosaur consists of rock that would entirely dissolve in acid, but Schweitzer wanted to get a closer look at the fossil's fine structure and compare it with that of modern birds.

To get a closer look at the interaction between the antibody and a fragment of the virus» envelope protein, scientists in Pamela J. Bjorkman's lab at Caltech determined the molecular structure formed as the two units interacted.

Planetary scientists have gotten their closest look yet at polar hurricanes on the ringed planet, and find that the storms are big enough to engulf Earth.

During a busy first year in orbit around Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft got its first close - up look at the ringed planet's sixth - largest moon, Enceladus — and wowed scientists in the process.

Experience shows that El Nio usually takes over from La Nia after about four years, so scientists are getting ready to take a closer look this spring.

Astronomers Get First Look at Giant Asteroid: «Seeing the surface up close for the first time, in its true glory, is amazing,» says Dawn project lead scientist Christopher Russell.

It looked as if neither scientist would get any closer to answering what they both regarded as the ultimate question, how is a tornado born?

To get a closer look at the individual nickel atoms within the atomically thin graphene sheet, the scientists used scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

Five years after winning $ 1 billion from NASA to mount the first U.S. asteroid sample return mission, scientists and engineers will get their last look at the OSIRIS - REx spacecraft this week as it is closed up inside the nose cone of an Atlas 5 rocket for launch in September.

When New Horizons sent back pictures of Pluto earlier in 2016, it was the first time scientists got a close - up look at the dwarf planet, once considered the ninth planet in our planetary system.