Sentences with phrase «so planetary scientists»

So planetary scientists must investigate thoroughly the sources, sinks and isotopic composition of this gas, along with other organic molecules and trace constituents in both gaseous and solid samples.

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.

Not exact matches

«There's a perception that Venus is a very difficult place to have a mission,» says planetary scientist Darby Dyar of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. «Everybody knows about the high pressures and temperatures on Venus, so people think we don't have technology to survive that.

So, this [broader] notion of planetary boundaries is something that a group of scientists around the world, led by Stockholm University and others, who had [recently] been pulling together to say, «Wait a minute.

«We've only found simple organic molecules so far,» says Ashwin Vasavada, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who leads Curiosity's science team.

«I'm so happy they made the right decision,» says Edgard Rivera - Valentín, a planetary scientist who works jointly at the observatory and the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houstoplanetary scientist who works jointly at the observatory and the Lunar and Planetary Institute in HoustoPlanetary Institute in Houston, Texas.

The worlds are so dissimilar that planetary scientist Steve Desch says he is one of only a handful of researchers familiar with both.

Discoveries of water on Mars are now so common that the subject has become the butt of jokes among planetary scientists: «Congratulations — you've discovered water on Mars for the 1,000 th time!»

We tend to think that objects in the sky have always been the way we view them, but in this case the face that is so familiar to us — the Man on the Moon — changed,» said Siegler, who also is a scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Ariz..

The bitterly cold temperatures that make Titan so forbidding for life in some ways make it more intriguing to people like Toby Owen, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaii and a Cassini coinvestigator.

«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.

Also planned for September is the inaugural flight of the Observatory for Planetary Investigations from the Stratosphere (OPIS)-- a notable event because so few planetary scientists have in the past employed less - expensive balloon craft to fly their insPlanetary Investigations from the Stratosphere (OPIS)-- a notable event because so few planetary scientists have in the past employed less - expensive balloon craft to fly their insplanetary scientists have in the past employed less - expensive balloon craft to fly their instruments.

Not so much for planetary scientists.

«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.

So argue two Mars scientists behind a controversial new push to relax planetary protection rules — a set of sterilisation procedures that Mars - bound spacecraft must undergo to avoid contaminating the planet with terrestrial microbes.

That helps explain why Titan, Saturn's largest and most exotic moon, has planetary scientists so excited.

«The reality that Mars is probably dead is still so hard to accept,» NASA planetary scientist Kevin Zahnle wrote recently, «that revivification remains the central thrust of NASA's unmanned exploration program.»

These properties make the Dry Valleys so unusual that they more closely resemble Mars than they do most of Earth, and therefore make a great research station for planetary scientists who can't yet buy a ticket to Mars.

According to planetary scientist John Spencer of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Tvashtar was so close to Io's horizon at the time that the telescope would not have seen the hot material unless it was jetting above the surface.

Among Saturn's substantial posse of moons — 61 have been discovered so far — two particularly odd ones are capturing the imagination of planetary scientists.

«Ceres is so big compared to all the other asteroids that it's really different,» said Andrew Rivkin, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «It's sort of the penultimate step before a planet.»

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

She is a planetary scientist at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. «Everybody knows about the high pressures and temperatures on Venus, so people think we don't have technology to survive that.

So - called «tiger stripes» on Enceladus were first reported in 2006 by planetary scientist Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

@elakdawalla - Planetary scientist, writer (44.1 K followers) * Personal favorite, so well spoken, multimedia tweets

Scientists considered whether habitation is possible there and, if so, how communication between the planetary neighbors might help one other sustain life and boost survival.

November 9 was Planetary Society founder Carl Sagan's birthday, so we gathered a few of his close friends and several young scientists he inspired in front of a live audience.

Planetary scientists are intrigued that Pluto, which is only 2,300 km across, has so many satellites - and of course there could be more even smaller, yet undiscovered.

«How much a lunar return costs depends very strongly on how you go about doing it, and on what scale, so there is no single answer to this question,» Paul D. Spudis, a senior staff scientist for the Lunar and Planetary Institute, says via email.

The correlation between the two seemed so clear, so dramatic and so dangerous that scientists became convinced not only that fossil fuels were causing the rapid increase in atmospheric warmth, but that the increase was so dangerous as to destabilize the planetary weather system generally.

From the («lay - scientist», real scientist wanna - be) guy who you Honored by re-enforcing my — much decried by the other bloggers — observation that, by using SO2 to «Geoengineer» our way out of having to use Good Sense to solve our Most Pressing of Planetary Issues, would only lead to more Acid Rain, Ocean Acidification, and — ultimately, or so I conjectured — the loss of our Primary source of the Oxygen that we all need to Breathe — Phytoplankton; I must say that I TRULY APPRECIATE what you do!

The Earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a slate - wiping of the evolutionary record it functioned as a resetting of the planetary clock, and many climate scientists will tell you they are the best analog for the ecological future we are diving headlong into.