Sentence examples for indicative of life from inspiring English sources
Proposed spacecraft such as Darwin or Terrestrial Planet Finder are designed to be capable of spectroscopically characterising the atmospheres of exoplanets, detecting chemical disequilibrium indicative of life.
And they could hunt for "biomarkers", mixtures of gases thought to be indicative of life, as Curiosity will do with Martian methane.
Like on Earth, Titan's atmosphere is largely composed of nitrogen, but Titan's atmosphere also contains organic gasses that would, on Earth, be indicative of life an unlikely proposition on Saturn's moon because of the frozen temperatures.
Add to such rock the heat and pressures of depth, throw in a splash of water, and eventually out comes methane.But it is not just explaining away fires on Earth that is of interest; serpentinization, as this process is called, was invoked to account for plumes of methane spotted by orbiters around Mars that might otherwise have been indicative of life (such methane plumes are now in doubt).
Biodiversity data are varied, sometimes messy, and indicative of life's grandeur.
(4) We have not been able to detect any chemical biomarker that is indicative of life.
Continuing to use these visual clichés and passing them off as indicative of everyday life does nothing to foster understanding on either side of the pond.
I still had the hospital bracelet on for the first few meetings; the degree to which this is indicative of a life going badly wrong is hard to overstate.
The Type III survivorship curve indicative of this life history is initially very steep, which is reflective of very high mortality among the young, but flattens out as those individuals who reach maturity survive for a relatively longer time; it is exhibited by animals such as many insects or shellfish.
Madonna explained that the concept of the song was indicative of her life at that time.
