Sentences with phrase «such habitable»

But the planet Mars would have never experienced such habitable conditions at the surface.

«The global nature of Enceladus» ocean and the inference that hydrothermal systems might exist at the ocean's base strengthen the case that this small moon of Saturn may have environments similar to those at the bottom of our own ocean,» said Jonathan Lunine, an interdisciplinary scientist on the Cassini mission at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. «It is therefore very tempting to imagine that life could exist in such a habitable realm, a billion miles from our home.»

Not exact matches

While just 49 of Kepler's thousands of planet candidates are Earth - size and in a habitable zone, the discovery has rocked the scientific world: This could mean billions of such worlds exist in the Milky Way galaxy alone.

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«You have basically stated that we are the only inhabitable planet, to say that is completely dishonest» = > That is news to me as I am not aware of such «habitable» planet.

The potential for such activity in this small ocean world has made Enceladus a prime target for future exploration in search of habitable environments in the solar system beyond Earth.

Work to identify the «habitable zones» in which such planets might exist has turned up some startling insights — not just about them, but also our own planet (see «Goodbye, Goldilocks: is life on Earth heading for an earlier demise?

GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD The most likely galaxy to host habitable planets might be a giant elliptical such as ESO 325 - G004 (pictured, center), which is about 450 million light - years away in the constellation Centaurus.

Such a fierce stellar wind would batter the atmosphere of any planet in the habitable zone, unless that planet was shielded by a magnetic field.

The Gliese 667C system is the first example of a system where such a low - mass star is seen to host several potentially rocky planets in the habitable zone.

On some missions, such as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover (now deep into its third Earth year seeking signs of habitable conditions on the Red Planet), the excess heat from the MMRTG can also be used to keep spacecraft systems warm in cold environments.

Such worlds orbit stars in so - called «habitable zones,» regions where planets could hold liquid water that is necessary for life as we know it.

A hydrogen - rich atmosphere could cause such close - in planets to overheat because of the greenhouse effect, so its absence supports the idea that some of these planets may have habitable conditions.

If a few key characteristics such as an exoplanet's topography and rotation rate are just right, then the inner edge of the habitable zone — the region in a solar system where conditions conducive to life can arise — will be closer to the host star than is usually thought.

Any planet in such a star's habitable zone is close enough to be tidally locked into a perpetually blazing dayside and frigid eternal nightside or, worse, shredded by tidal forces.

Since they are subjected to such harsh physical conditions, red - dwarf planets may not be habitable after all, so life in the universe might be even rarer than we thought.

Such gargantuan telescopes would build on the technologies now being developed by Breakthrough and other organizations, and would offer hope of detecting biosignatures and other gases in planets» atmospheres to reveal whether they are habitable — or even inhabited.

No one yet knows whether such a «super-Earth» would be a habitable world like our own — or instead an airless rock or a gas - shrouded miniature version of Neptune.

It also means that such binary star systems are a poor place to aim coming ground - and space - based telescopes to look for habitable planets and life beyond Earth.

Such was the case for the two planets closest to TRAPPIST - 1, but the team also found that three planets in the habitable zone of the star should've lost way less water, hinting tantalizingly at the possibility of life a mere 40 light - years away.

A small fraction of these, in turn, could have been Earth - like, meaning they met such criteria as harboring water and existing within a habitable distance from their suns.

«This is probably not what you would call a habitable world,» he cautioned, pointing out that such a discovery is likely just a few years away.

(The potentially habitable super-Earth announced by a team of astronomers in September and later questioned by a rival team does not appear to transit, limiting the possibility of such detailed study.)

Researchers identify such planets by first looking for those that are situated within the «habitable zone» around their parent stars, which is where temperatures are warm enough for water to pool on the surface.

The oldest detected Kepler planets (exoplanets found using NASA's Kepler telescope) are about 11 billion years old, and the planetary diversity suggests that around other stars, such initially frozen worlds could be the size of Earth and could even provide habitable conditions once the star becomes older.

The findings have direct implications for future NASA missions, such as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and James Webb Space Telescope, which will try to detect possible habitable planets and characterize their atmospheres.

«For stars that are like our sun, but older, such thawed planets could stay warm up to half a billion years in the red giant habitable zone.

When Bjork scaled up the search to include 260,000 such systems in our galaxy's habitable zone, the probes took almost 10 billion years — three - quarters the age of the universe — to explore just 0.4 per cent of the stars (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph?papernum=0701238).

He adds that the search could be optimised by visiting only those stars that harbour habitable planets, which could be identified by planet - finding missions such as NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder.

«It suggests that many potentially habitable worlds will be found in the next years around nearby stars by ground - based and space - based observatories, such as PLATO.

What's more, results from Keck's vortex coronagraph will help with a planet imager planned for the future Thirty Meter Telescope and with proposed NASA space missions, such as the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) and the Large UV / Optical / IR Surveyor (LUVOIR), which would use next - generation vortex coronagraphs currently being designed in Mawet's group at Caltech.

The inner edge of the habitable zone is defined by the point at which such a planet begins to lose its water, thus rendering it uninhabitable.

Confirming previous modelling of the Alpha Centauri system, the RECONS astronomers found that Alpha Centauri A and B orbit in such a way that when the light and heat of the two stars was combined, neither star in the innermost AB system significantly changed the size of their respective habitable zones, regardless of where each was currently located in its orbit.

Kepler has even identified some planets with Earth - like traits, such as Kepler - 452b, a near - Earth - size planet found in the habitable zone of a sun - like star.

If planets like of GJ 1132b can maintain an atmosphere for several billion years, they said, it indicates that such worlds could potentially be habitable.

The progression toward smaller planets at longer orbital periods with each new catalog release suggests that Earth - size planets in the Habitable Zone are forthcoming if, indeed, such planets are abundant.

The researchers hope that their technique may prove especially useful when upcoming space missions such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Ariel Space Mission start providing more detailed atmospheric observations of potentially habitable exoplanets.

It contains catalogs such as the Nearby Stars Catalog or the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog describing the stellar and planetary properties of the nearby stellar system within 10 parsecs and the properties of the potentially exoplanets, respectively.

«With these missions we will learn about the most extreme states of matter by studying neutron stars and we will identify many nearby star systems with rocky planets in the habitable zone for further study by telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope.»

Its atmosphere might contain water, however, and such a large planet could also sport a habitable moon [source: ESA].

Its main goal is to generate a base estimate, or census, of the number of such planets orbiting within habitable zones, where conditions are right for liquid water to exist.

As high - altitude clouds and hazes are not expected in hydrogen - dominated atmospheres around planets with such insolation15, 16, these observations further support their terrestrial and potentially habitable nature.

This implies that many such stars also will be found to have Earth - sized planets in their habitable zones.

Presumably, such a planet could move into the habitable zone and stay in it if it's orbit keeps decaying at the correct rate.

The authors study whether or not such planets can be habitable, noting this key fact about brown dwarf evolution: The brown dwarf is continually fading as it releases gravitational potential energy.

That said, the concept of the «habitable zone» may be a bit of a misnomer, as life may be able to emerge outside of this area, such as on moons in orbit around gas giants.

Their hypothesis states that a series of chance events or situations, such as living in the habitable zone of the sun, having a Jupiter - type planet to clear away comet and asteroid debris and having few mass extinctions, has allowed life to develop on Earth and would be unlikely to happen elsewhere.

Such discoveries as these have strongly promoted the emergence of astrobiology as a field of study by broadening the range of possible extraterrestrial habitats far beyond the conventional notion of a «habitable zone.»

To produce a habitable planet, lifeforms need to regulate greenhouse gases such as water and carbon dioxide to keep surface temperatures stable,» said Chopra.

If such planets were Earth - sized with oceans and atmospheres, then they could even «see Blue», Project Blue's term for finding a potentially habitable planet.