The advantage of the GAIA assimilation is in the study of atmosphere-ionosphere coupling processes at large scales.
They include the study of atmospheres of exoplanets--planets around other stars--to look for molecular imbalances that could indicate the presence of life--and the sources of violent explosions around supermassive and other black holes that we detect already in other parts of the spectrum.
Essentially, they are sophisticated studies of atmosphere, vaporous ambiguities that intrigue, and compel us to navigate the hazy borders of perception.
Such maps are of immense potential value in a variety of studies of atmospheres such as those of the outer planets, and some possible extensions of this approach to ongoing and future spacecraft missions are discussed.
D3 Neediest Cases D8 SCIENCE/HEALTH An Atmosphere, Far Away Astronomers have for the first time detected and made a preliminary chemical study of the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system.
Though likely uninhabitable, planet is rocky, Earth-sized, and near enough for study of its atmosphere.
His greatest contributions were on the subjects of spherical and parabolic mirrors, refraction, and the study of the atmosphere.
For the first time, astronomers have detected and made a preliminary chemical study of the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system.
On one hand, they assure us that satellites and computers make forecasting more accurate; contrariwise, they warn us that meteorology (the study of the atmosphere, and not, as logic suggests, watching for meteors) is still an inexact science.
Back in the UK she felt the itch to return to science, remembering how much she enjoyed the application of physics to the study of the atmosphere at Imperial.
As a major figure in the founding of the modern dynamical study of the atmosphere and ocean, Professor Carl-Gustaf Rossby's name is recalled ubiquitously in the fields of Earth and planetary sciences.
