Sentences with phrase «space scientist studies»

In July 2016, he and his family were in southern Turkey wrapping up a visit to relatives and preparing to return home to Houston, Texas, where the Turkish - American space scientist studies the effects of radiation on astronauts.

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Scientists who study within the 2 variants of Space, One being Outer and the other being Inner are slowed to rationalize with right - minded fidelity, that Inner Space and Outer Space are but the sameness yet their Sizes of these Spaces are seen only by the material that one sees.

I was studying at the time when scientists in Britain (such as Stephen Hawking) were developing the first of the space - time theorems.

Founded in 1857, the Chicago Academy of Sciences was founded by nature aficionados and amateur scientists seeking a space where they could study and share the specimens they collected.

Once they land, scientists will begin analyzing data from the men to study changes that occurred in their bodies over an extended stay in space.

Lead author of the paper is research scientist Andrew Jordan of the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS).

The folks who volunteer to lie in bed for three months with their feet elevated slightly above their heads so that scientists can study the physiological effects of being in zero gravity tend to be passionate about space flight.

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.

«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.

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh have discovered that the puzzle could be resolved by determining the speed of gravity in the cosmos from a study of gravitational waves - space - time ripples propagating through the universe.

«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.

«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.

«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.

«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.»

One breakthrough occurred when atmospheric scientist Anthony Delgenio of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies noticed that storms coincided with electrostatic discharges.

«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.

The valuable cooling effects of large urban green spaces has been established; now scientists from Forest Research, the research agency of the Forestry Commission, have studied small and medium sized parks in London to determine the optimum size, distribution and composition of urban green spaces needed to achieve urban cooling.

The scientists now hope their study will open the door to further our understanding of the early universe and explain how space and time emerged.

Although apparently highly technical, the piece has been strongly criticised by professional climate scientists, including Gavin Schmidt, of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York.

«The other influence is methane, which breaks down into two water molecules and CO2 in the stratosphere,» explains climate scientist Drew Shindell of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).

Following up on the discovery, an international team of scientists led by the Swiss astronomer Vincent Bourrier from the Observatoire de l'Université de Genève, used the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the amount of ultraviolet radiation received by the individual planets of the system.

After a little more than a year in orbit, the Spitzer Space Telescope has sped the tempo of discovery in planet formation studies so much that scientists are overwhelmed.

«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.

In the new study, co-author Katrina Virts, an atmospheric scientist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was analyzing data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, a network of sensors that locates lightning strokes all over the globe, when she noticed a nearly straight line of lightning strokes across the Indian Ocean.

During that trip around the sun, Geraint Jones, a comet scientist at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the UK studied the comet's dust tails to better understand what happened as it rounded the sun.

Scientists are learning how to detect and recognize those waves by studying supercomputer models run at two NASA campuses, the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Scientists, dealers, collectors and nomadic tribesmen have formed a surprising alliance that's advancing the study of space rocks — and making, for some, a tidy profit.

The study, conducted by the BICEP2 team that claimed the discovery and scientists with the Planck space telescope, nullifies a result that would have provided the first direct evidence of cosmological inflation, a brief moment after the Big Bang when the universe rapidly ballooned in size.

Planetary scientist Tony Del Genio of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies vaguely blames «impurities in the clouds.»

To conduct the study, scientists asked residents of about 1200 homes scattered across the continental United States to swab dust that had accumulated in two places: their main external doorframe and an internal door frame in their home's main living space.

A pilot study by USDA scientists in Maryland added straw to a beef cattle manure pile, heating up the dense material while allowing spaces for air to penetrate.

«Instead of a prolonged, comet - like tail, this rough bubble - shape of the heliosphere is due to the strong interstellar magnetic field — much stronger than what was anticipated in the past — combined with the fact that the ratio between particle pressure and magnetic pressure inside the heliosheath is high,» said Kostas Dialynas, a space scientist at the Academy of Athens in Greece and lead author on the study.

«If nothing changed on the moon — if there were no lunar body tide or if its tide were completely static — then every time scientists measured the surface height at a particular location, they would get the same value,» said Mike Barker, a Sigma Space Corporation scientist based at Goddard and co-author of the new study, which is available online in Geophysical Research Letters.

The takeaway is that if humanity stopped cranking out greenhouse gases immediately, sea levels would still rise for centuries before the heat dissipates through Earth's atmosphere and into space, says study co-author Susan Solomon, an atmospheric scientist at MIT.

However, a new study from a team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin - Madison Space Science and Engineering Center scientist, Claire Pettersen, describes a unique method involving cloud characteristics that could help answer some big questions about the Greenland Ice Sheet and its snowfall.

«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.

«Climate change has exacerbated naturally occurring droughts, and therefore fuel conditions,» said Robert Field, a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Some climate scientists, including James E. Hansen, former head of the nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, say we must also consider slower feedbacks such as changes in the continental ice sheets.

«The idea that [the impact] is on par with doubling of CO2, that's just nonsense,» agrees climate scientist Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

The shuttle mission this weekend will also deploy the European Space Agency's Eureca satellite, the world's first reusable satellite for studying the effects of microgravity (see «Making the most of weightlessness», New Scientist, 11 July).

This unique orbit path will allow the CATS instrument to observe locations at different times of day and allow scientists to study day - to - night changes in cloud and aerosol effects from space.

«Robotic spacecraft are usually radiation - hardened to protect against these kinds of events,» said Chris St. Cyr, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the sspace scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the sSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the study.

In a study published Jan. 30, 2017, in Space Weather, scientists from NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado, have shown that the warning signs of one type of space weather event can be detected tens of minutes earlier than with current forecasting techniques — critical extra time that could help protect astronauts in sSpace Weather, scientists from NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado, have shown that the warning signs of one type of space weather event can be detected tens of minutes earlier than with current forecasting techniques — critical extra time that could help protect astronauts in sspace weather event can be detected tens of minutes earlier than with current forecasting techniques — critical extra time that could help protect astronauts in spacespace.

The skull went first to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's PaleoLab in Pittsburgh, then made a brief trip to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where scientists studied it with the same CT - scan equipment used to examine the space shuspace shuttle.

Scientists see «leftovers» from earlier hacking «They're the leftovers from Thanksgiving 2009,» said Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Even the northeastern United States - a region normally omitted from any serious talk about domestic drought - is at risk, said Dorothy Peteet, a senior research scientist with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Scientists have been studying how visual space is mapped in the cerebral cortex for many decades under the assumption that the map is equal for lights and darks.

Based on a 2016 study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists speculated that lava would flow freely in lakes on the starlit side and become hardened on the face of perpetual darkness.

While earthbound scientists have been observing Comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko for years now, the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which was dispatched in 2004 to map and study the comet, caught the first glimpse of its target in only the last few weeks.

Scientists will use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study sections of the sky previously observed by NASA's Great Observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, to understand the creation of the universe's first galaxies and stars.