Sentences with phrase «younger planetary scientists»
He worries that younger planetary scientists are starting to look for other opportunities, undermining the prospects of future missions.
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In 2004, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft first began orbiting Saturn and studying its moon Titan, Brigham Young University planetary scientist Jani Radebaugh was puzzled.
Taken together, the two results make a compelling case for young rings, says Larry Esposito, a planetary scientist also at CU Boulder who has long believed the rings to be old.
Planetary scientists hope the stony siblings — the youngest yet identified — will reveal new details about how collisions shape the lives of asteroids.
Scientists have long suspected that our planetary companion was built when a Mars - sized body — commonly known as Theia — struck the young Earth, throwing molten rock into orbit that coalesced into the Moon.
One way to address the issue would be to observe the process occurring in other, younger planetary systems, but that would require making observations that planetary scientists haven't yet been able to manage.
That's lightweight enough to be young, says planetary scientist Larry Esposito of the University of Colorado Boulder, a longtime old rings proponent who wasn't involved in the new work.
Climate models suggest that our planet should have been frozen over at the time, yet there is geological evidence for liquid water aplenty — a disparity that planetary scientists have dubbed the faint young sun paradox.
According to Jani Radebaugh, a planetary scientist at Brigham Young University who was not involved in the study, these results are notable because they represent a big step forward in studying the Saturnian moon's surface.
Planetary scientist Michael A'Hearn passed away on Monday, May 29, leaving a remarkable legacy in cometary science — but even more importantly in the careers of many younger scientists who flourished with his encouragement and mentorship.
November 9 was Planetary Society founder Carl Sagan's birthday, so we gathered a few of his close friends and several young scientists he inspired in front of a live audience.