Sentences with phrase «terrestrial worlds»

In his new book, «Beyond Words,» Safina divides his time between the marine and terrestrial worlds, examining animals» intelligence and feelings both through the lens of science and simply through wonder - filled observation.

Planetbase is an indie game that lets you build a space colony on a Mars - like planet and two other extra terrestrial worlds.

«And it even had seven terrestrial worlds around it.»

If life is common, a large sample of terrestrial worlds with highly unusual atmospheric chemistry will secure our belief that life of some kind exists beyond the Earth, regardless of possible false positives.

In his view, Pluto and the solar system's other dwarfs deserve a place at the planetary table, alongside giants like Jupiter and terrestrial worlds like Earth.

«It has shown us these terrestrial worlds, and we still have all this work to do to really understand how common Earths are in the galaxy.

Understanding the origin and fate of methane on these bodies will provide crucial clues to the processes that shape the formation, evolution and habitability of terrestrial worlds in this solar system and possibly in others.

«We expect these surveys to find so many nearby, terrestrial worlds that space telescopes simply won't be able to follow up on all of them.

So far, 2,335 candidates have been confirmed as planets and they include about 30 temperate, terrestrial worlds.

Species loss has pushed ecosystems past a danger threshold across more than half of the terrestrial world

Avon Colony will allow you to build, customise and maintain settlement within an extra terrestrial world called Aven Prime, full of wetlands, deserts and tundras.

Gall spotlights the phenomena of the terrestrial world, which she calls «comforting, beautiful, frightening and strange.»

She incorporates elements of the celestial and terrestrial world in each circle that represent the layering of time, planetary gases, and other microbes that are frozen within them.

Using traditional and modern techniques to produce handmade, hand - painted terrestrial world globes with precisely designed maps and elegant stands, their studio workshop is based in Stoke Newington, London, and their globes are purchased by customers from all over the world.

Species loss has pushed ecosystems past a danger threshold across more than half of the terrestrial world

In 2011 more than half of the terrestrial world's carbon uptake was in the southern hemisphere — which is unexpected because most of the planet's land surface is in the northern hemisphere — and 60 % of this was in Australia.

But it is home to one of the terrestrial world's richest habitats, and its loss would have incalculable consequences, for the people in the region and for the rest of the world.

Not exact matches

Since its establishment in 2009, exactEarth has pioneered a powerful new method of maritime surveillance called Satellite - AIS and has delivered to its clients a view of maritime behaviours across all regions of the world's oceans unrestricted by terrestrial limitations.

The hypothesis of a definitive halt in terrestrial evolution is, to my mind, suggested less by the apparently unchanging nature of present forms than by a certain general aspect of the world coinciding with this appearance of cessation.

An incarnational theology that limits the significance of the earthly appearance of the second person of the Trinity to the salvation of our souls from a world of iniquity and eternal damnation must, inevitably, terminate in a devaluation of everything terrestrial.

He had watched the sacred New Year procession; he had seen, for the pious but benighted Babylonian, a profound mystery taking place under the eyes of the beholder as Marduk and Nabu went out in solemn pilgrimage to the Akitu house, there to settle the fates of the incoming year; he had witnessed the annual festival in which Marduk triumphed over all his foes, cosmic and terrestrial, and himself died that life might once more return to the world.

Thus we should expect cultural differentiation on other worlds, but despite their diversity all would be characteristically stamped by that biological situation, just as all our cultures by contrast will be found to have certain peculiarly «terrestrial» features.

Or how a 500 year old man and his 3 sons were able to construct a 450 foot boat with every kind of terrestrial environment in the world to support every kind of animal in the world.

Forests also provide habitat for 80 percent of the world's terrestrial biodiversity and livelihoods for 1.6 billion people.

Moreover, agricultural intensification has had major detrimental impacts on the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world.

As with our fish and terrestrial proteins, we're putting our own hands in the soil and harvesting what we consider to be some of the best produce in the world — right next to our restaurant.

Mediaset Premium will contribute 9 cinema and TV series channels to the Rupert Murdoch group satellite TV offering, while Sky will enter the world of digital terrestrial TV in June

Picture us on a hill in Big Sur singing the 1971 «Buy - the - world - a-Coke» song recently featured in Mad Men, only instead of selling soft drinks we'd be preparing for a Battle Field Earth type smackdown with a bunch of flesh gnawing Extra Terrestrials who have NO IDEA just who they are messing with.

[246][248] Tourism Landmarks, National Border, Region and Terrestrial plain of the 4th Republic of Ghana Coastal Plain Accra, Apam, Cape Coast, Elmina, Kakum National Park, Kokrobite, Nzulezo, Sekondi - Takoradi, Ada Foah The Gulf of Guinea coastal plain with the seat of government and capital city, several castles and forts and the best preserved rainforest in Ghana Ashanti - Kwahu Koforidua, Kumasi, Obuasi, Sunyani Forested hills and the ancient Kingdom of Ashanti Volta Basin Tamale massive and world's largest Lake Volta, the river system that feeds it and Ghana eastern border crossing Northern Plains Wa, Bolgatanga, Mole National Park Savanna plains and north Ghana trade route and border crossing

Meeting the Neighbors A century ago, our solar system seemed split into two tidy groups: the terrestrial inner planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars — and the giant, gaseous outer worlds.

At just under eight times the mass and twice the size of our own world, 55 Cancri e is a welterweight that straddles the hazy boundary between terrestrial and gas - giant planets.

I'm one of only a few dozen maybe in the whole world who focus on landscapes that got covered by sea level rise or prehistoric settlements that were terrestrial but ended up underwater.

A scientist investigating coconut crabs in a remote Indian Ocean archipelago found evidence that the crabs, the world's largest terrestrial invertebrates, make terrifying sneak attacks on seabirds.

The monster in this horror - film scenario is a coconut crab, the world's largest terrestrial invertebrate, which has a leg span wider than a meter and can weigh more than four kilograms.

Lead author Dr Mark Abrahams, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Understanding the impacts of subsistence hunting in tropical forests is crucial not only to safeguard the world's most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystems, but also to secure a sustainable future for forest - dependent communities.»

In the world of evolutionary research, scientists studying the evolution of eusocial societies have traditionally relied on information gathered from studying terrestrial insects.

Beyond wildlife concerns, Canada's boreal forest, which stretches from coast to coast, comprises perhaps the world's largest terrestrial storehouse of carbon dioxide, so it is critical to keep it intact to help mitigate global warming.

Therapsids roamed the Earth and dominated terrestrial ecosystems well before dinosaurs and are known from all continents in the world, but South Africa has by far the most diverse and long - ranging record of this important group of animals.

Understanding wood decay in forests is of special concern in the tropics because tropical forests are estimated to harbor 96 % of the world's tree diversity and about 25 % of terrestrial carbon, compared to the roughly 10 % of carbon held in temperate forests.

Christian would also like to see the Google Earth and Sky interfaces merged into one (for now, users click on a button to switch between interfaces) so that they can navigate seamlessly between the terrestrial and extraterrestrial worlds.

The discovery is remarkable because the debris appears to be rocky and suggests that terrestrial planets like Tatooine — Luke Skywalker's home world in Star Wars — might exist in the system.

Unlike the full - color environment that humans and other terrestrial animals inhabit, fishes live in a world that is predominantly blue because, with depth, water quickly absorbs the majority of the visible light spectrum.

«World record in terrestrial radio transmission: Multi-Gigabit wireless communication.»

The researchers also said their findings suggest that small ponds are likely breaking down terrestrial carbon that is not factored into assessments of the world's carbon stocks and fluxes.

The world's nations also show strong commitments to habitat protection, and countries are now within striking distance of international targets for terrestrial and marine habitat protection.

The 193 national signatories of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) made a global commitment in 2010 to increase the world's terrestrial protected area network from 13 to 17 percent by the year 2020.

«Terrestrial climates around the world tend to alternate between cool, wet summers in some years and warm, dry summers in other years,» said UBC forestry PhD candidate Colin Mahony, lead author of the study.

Based on humankind's admittedly limited experience, habitability seems to mean a small world — a terrestrial planet rather than a gas giant like Jupiter or Saturn — orbiting its star at a comfortable «Goldilocks» distance that allows water to persist in liquid form.

The low densities of the Kepler 11 planets imply a bounty of light elements and a dearth of iron and rock, making the midsize worlds more akin to mini Neptunes than to terrestrial, supersize Earths.

«The Bighorn Basin fossil record, particularly from this part of the basin, is one of the best early Cenozoic terrestrial records in the world.»