Essays about: "Habitability"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 15 essays containing the word Habitability.

  1. 6. Assessing the relationship between hypoxia and life on Earth, and implications for the search for habitable exoplanets

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Thomas Evan Smith; [2022]
    Keywords : hypoxia; hypoxia-inducible factors; atmospheric oxygen; multicellularity; embryogenesis; exoplanets; white dwarfs; oxygen fugacity; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Atmospheric oxygen at the level of present-day Earth (21%) is generally regarded as permissive for the development and survival of complex multicellular life, such as animals. The hypothesis that oxic conditions are conducive for multicellular life has subsequently been applied to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, with planets exhibiting atmospheric oxygen of a similar level to Earth being considered as candidates for habitability. READ MORE

  3. 7. Post-Main Sequence Habitability for Outer Solar System Moons

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för fysik och astronomi

    Author : Viktor Sparrman; [2022]
    Keywords : Habitability; Habitable Zone; Greenhouse Effect; Outer moons; Red Giant Branch; Horizontal Branch; Asymptotic Giant Branch; solar evolution;

    Abstract : The search for extra-terrestrial life is guided by the classification of promising candidate worlds. In this classification the habitable zone acts as a measure for the perceived habitability of a circumstellar body. Habitable zone definitions vary between using a conservative and an optimistic limit. READ MORE

  4. 8. Design And Race: "African Design" In The Shadow Of Modernity

    University essay from Konstfack/Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign

    Author : Kibandu Pello-Esso; [2021]
    Keywords : race; spatial design; diaspora; decoloniality; planetarian habitability; modernity; reparation;

    Abstract : To explore the question of how race and design are related, I have developed a set of analysis strategies, involving props that are investigating objecthood and subjectivity. I use prototyping techniques and sketching in full scale. READ MORE

  5. 9. Detecting Earth-like exoplanets using high-dispersion nulling interferometry

    University essay from KTH/Tillämpad fysik

    Author : Germain Garreau; [2021]
    Keywords : Applied Physics; Instrumental Optics; Exoplanets Detection; Interferometry; Spectroscopy; Tillämpad fysik; Instrumentoptik; Exoplaneter upptäckt; Interferometri; Spektroskopi;

    Abstract : The detection of Earth-like exoplanets and the characterization of their atmospheres is a challenge one needs to solve to assess their habitability and the presence of life in the universe. If this challenge is still unresolved today, even in the era of giant telescopes, it is mainly because of the very high contrast between these exoplanets and their host star and also their proximity. READ MORE

  6. 10. The Solar System Around a Binary Star

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Astronomi - Genomgår omorganisation

    Author : Jesper Nielsen; [2019]
    Keywords : planetary system stability; binary star; Physics and Astronomy;

    Abstract : The observations of circumbinary planets have confirmed that these can in fact be stable. While previous studies on circumbinary planets have been done, not many have been made on systems containing multiple circumbinary planets on eccentric orbits. READ MORE