Sentences with phrase «space physicist»

Cluster's observations provide «the first look at the future of auroral research,» says space physicist Patrick Newell of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

Space Physicists led by Lancaster University used data to show that Cassini had passed through the region at Saturn where magnetic reconnection was occurring, which has never before been observed.

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Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have recently raised doubts about water on — and thus potential habitability of — frequently cited exoplanets that orbit red dwarfs, the most common stars in the Milky Way.

The discovery was made by two University of New Hampshire space physicists, who published their findings in the online journal Nature Communications Monday, May 11, 2015.

The Dartmouth space physicists are part of a NASA - sponsored team that studies the Van Allen radiation belts, which are donut - shaped belts of charged particles held in place by Earth's magnetosphere, the magnetic field surrounding our planet.

«This is a nice first observation» of electrojets, says space physicist Margaret Kivelson of the University of California, Los Angeles.

A fluffy or honeycombed texture is the most likely explanation, agrees space physicist Tamas Gombosi of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a veteran of the Giotto mission.

All the same, space physicist Robert Decker of Johns Hopkins University says several other factors suggest Voyager 1 is on the verge of crossing that mysterious zone.

Rudi Schmidt, an Austrian space physicist who is ESA's project manager for Mars Express, was the project scientist for Cluster.

The particles could not have reached the satellites unless there was a major magnetic gap, says space physicist Tai Phan of the University of California, Berkeley.

With the European Space Agency's Venus Express in the neighborhood, space physicist Christopher Russell of the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues were looking for the magnetic signals that should accompany the electrical signals observed by the Pioneer Venus Orbiter.

«That is one possibility,» says a more skeptical space physicist, Georg Fischer of the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

But high - flying volcanic debris frustrated space physicists» attempts to use Jupiter's powerful magnetic field as a probe of Io's interior.

You will therefore work with diverse research teams including space physicists exploiting ground - based instruments and space missions to study the ionospheres and magnetospheres of Earth and the other planets, and statisticians developing statistical methodology to understand the behaviour of extreme events in real - life environmental applications.

«When a solar wind gust hits the magnetosphere, the impact knocks loose some of those trapped particles,» explains space physicist Tony Lui of Johns Hopkins University.

SOHO20 invites you to join us for a conversation between exhibiting artist Inhye Lee and space physicist Hyomin Kim, PhD in conjunction with the exhibition, Unseen Forces.

CLOUD's genesis is in the mid-1990s, when space physicist Hendrik Svensmark hypothesized that cosmic rays as mediated by solar effects, play a very large role on the physics of climate, and could explain the warming and cooling trends.

But several space physicists have spoken out about the patent corruption of science due to the peddling of the paradigm that catastrophic global warming is predominantly due to human produced CO2 emissions.

«There's been no other report like this for space weather,» says lead study author Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).

More answers await: By combining their gravity and magnetic measures, Michele Dougherty, a space physicist at Imperial College London, also expects to reveal new information about the composition and mass of Saturn's core, along with some sense of how the heavier elements distribute among the gas giant's stew of hydrogen and helium.

After 12 years of painstaking measurements and analysis, the Cosmic Dust Analyzer, a Cassini experiment that measures small particles, has pinned down the micrometeorite flux — and it is «inconsistent with an old ring,» says Sascha Kempf, a space physicist at the University of Colorado (CU) in Boulder who will present the results tomorrow.

«A space physicist usually thinks in terms of this tilted dipole that the earth has,» Love says, «whereas a navigator would probably be more interested in the magnetic dip poles.»

Jacob Bortnik, a space physicist at UCLA, was studying the chorus phenomenon when he stumbled upon the idea that it might leak into the plasmasphere.

The observation leaves space scientists wondering where the torrent of particles originates, says Tom Hill, a space physicist at Rice University in Houston.

But Alex Dessler, a space physicist at the University of Arizona, Tucson, says the same area of the planet also produces unusual radio signals, flares of ultraviolet light, and high levels of infrared radiation and even seems to be correlated with a patch in Jupiter's magnetosphere that pumps out high - energy electrons.

«The study very definitively shows that we're in the interstellar medium,» says Gary Zank, a space physicist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who was not involved in the research.

«The prodigal son was going up against his mentor, and he had a whole team of us young guys,» says Louis Lanzerotti, a space physicist at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, who joined Krimigis on his winning Low Energy Charged Particle (LECP) experiment, designed to detect nuclei of elements heavier than hydrogen or helium.

Southwood, then a space physicist at Imperial College in London, was at Kourou on June 4, 1996; he had been dreaming about the mission for 30 years.

Some space physicists thought this realignment could continue for hours, while others thought the gaps snapped open and closed rapidly.

The space physicists noted that the stellar wind that blows from stars could deplete the atmosphere of such planets over hundreds of millions of years, eliminating liquid water that is vital for life as we know it.

Singer is an atmospheric and space physicist, the first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Center, a research professor at George Mason University (USA) and professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia (USA).

Dr. Singer, an atmospheric and space physicist, founded the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).

An atmospheric and space physicist, he headed the U.S. Weather Satellite Service [now part of NOAA], founded the Science and Environmental Policy Project and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change.

• Dr. S. Fred Singer, atmospheric and space physicist, prolific author, and first director of the National Weather Satellite Service.