Sentences with phrase «why space scientists»

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Similarly, Gordon Chin, a project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, proposed a mission that would explain why the same chemical processes that destroy ozone in Earth's atmosphere stabilize carbon dioxide in Venus's.

Dean Pesnell, project scientist for SDO at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., explained why Comet ISON wasn't visible in SDO and what could be learned from that: SDO is tuned to see wavelengths of light that would indicate the presence of oxygen, which is very common in comets.

The research amounts to a «reasonable and clever» way to determine why the beginning of the next solar cycle has been tardy, says space scientist Nancy Crooker of Boston University in Massachusetts.

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues answer the question of why NASA's Voyager 1, when it became the first probe to enter interstellar space in mid-2012, observed a magnetic field that was inconsistent with that derived from other spacecraft observations.

And more broadly speaking, the Copernican principle, as scientists have applied [it] ever since, is that when we are trying to understand how the universe works, it is good to assume that there is nothing special about the Earth and where it sits; that we're not in a particularly privileged space and that's why things work the way that they do.

Everything flying around space is pretty weird, but this one is extra weird, which is why astronomers are so excited about it — in fact, although scientists first dubbed it a comet, they're now not even sure what it is.

We're looking at why that is,» said sea ice scientist Nathan Kurtz of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

There is a good reason why scientists have focused on the energy that is emitted back to space (i.e., the energy budget at the top of the atmosphere) and that is precisely the issue that you bring up: the energy budget at the surface is strongly influenced by convection and latent heat transfer.

The scientists brought their 1.55 metre cores to the surface in 1993, but it has taken another two decades for laboratory techniques to detect and interpret the significance of radioactive particle samples in the rock that could only have come from outer space — which is why scientists think the bedrock must have been exposed, possibly more than once.