Sentence examples for planetary interest from inspiring English sources

But there's little self-interest – only planetary interest – in leaving existing fuel assets in the ground.

"Eighteen months ago some of us wrote you about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, explaining why in our opinion its construction ran counter to both national and planetary interests," the letter said.

The water, billions of tons of it, would have come from the bombardment of comets over the several billion years of the Moon's existence (thus the planetary scientists' interest in studying it).

"Many classical astronomers think that the solar system is too close to be part of astronomy, while many planetary scientists are interested only in parts of the solar system close enough to be easily reached with spacecraft," Jewitt explains.

Therefore, planetary scientists are interested in the accurate in situ determination of the surface mineralogy and mineral composition on Mars by advanced techniques and instruments on board Mars landers and rovers [9 14].

Modern interest in planetary transits can be traced from Kepler.

The experiments are also of interest to planetary scientists, who believe gas giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn may contain cores of metallic hydrogen.

Comets are of particular interest to planetary scientists because they contain almost pristine ingredients from the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.

"The hunt for exoplanets is not only a priority for astronomers, it's of keen interest to planetary and climate scientists as well".

That area became a prime subject of interest for planetary scientists after NASA's orbiting Odyssey spacecraft discovered in 2002 vast quantities of water ice lying a few inches beneath the surface in the polar regions.

The first CRDS spectrum of methane cooled down to liquid nitrogen temperature has been recorded in the region of the 1.58 μm methane transparency window, of particular interest for planetary science.