ISTANBUL, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- A group of Turkish scientists on Friday left for Antarctica to set up the country's first scientific research base there,
local media reported.
"We are on our way to Antarctica as a team of nine researches to conduct feasibility studies of the base," Burcu Ozsoy, director of the Istanbul
Technical University Polar Research Center, was quoted as saying by the Hurriyet
daily in Istanbul prior to the team's departure.
"Our target is to set up a research base to open our studies to Turkish scientists," she said.
During their 30 days of expedition, the Turkish scientists will also focus on researches on climate change and sea creatures, the daily said.
In Ozsoy's view, all the countries in the world will one day head to Antarctica for salvation from the worst-case drought scenario, as the continent
holds 70 percent of the world's fresh water reserve.
Antarctica, governed by Antarctic Treaty which came into force in 1961 with 53 participant countries, is allowed to be used for scientific research purposes
only.
Turkey is holding an observer status under the treaty like 24 others and has no right to vote.
The illustration released by NASA on Feb. 22 Asics Mens Shoes Online , 2017 shows the artist's concept of what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the
planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star. A compact analogue
of our inner solar system about 40 light years away from the Earth has been
discovered, NASA announced during a press conference on Wednesday. An
international team of astronomers using powerful space telescopes and
ground-based observatories have discovered the first known system of actually
seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearby TRAPPIST-1, which is relatively
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firmly located in the habitable zone Asics Shoes Online , the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid
water. (XinhuaNASAJPL-Caltech) The chart released by NASA on Feb. 22, 2017 shows
on the top row, artist concepts of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their
orbital periods, distances from their star, radii and masses as compared to
those of Earth; on the bottom row, the same numbers are displayed for the bodies
of our inner solar system: Mercury Asics Gel Kayano Shoes Sale , Venus, Earth and Mars. A compact analogue of our inner solar system about 40 light years away from the Earth has been discovered, NASA
announced during a press conference on Wednesday. An international team of
astronomers using powerful space telescopes and ground-based observatories have
discovered the first known system of actually seven Earth-sized planets orbiting
the nearby TRAPPIST-1, which is relatively close to us, in the constellation
Aquarius. And three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone,
the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have
liquid water. (XinhuaNASAJPL-Caltech)
LOS ANGELES Asics Gel Nimbus Shoes Sale , Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- A compact analogue of our inner solar system about 40 light years away has been discovered, the U.S. space station
NASA announced at a press conference on Wednesday.
"The discovery gives us a hint that finding a second earth is not just a matter of if but when," Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator of the Science
Mission Directorate said.
By using powerful space telescopes and ground-based observatories, an international team of astronomers have discovered the first known system of
actually seven Earth-size planets orbiting the nearby TRAPPIST-1, which is
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"Around a nearby, cold, small star we found 7 rocky Earth-size planets, all of which could have liquid water -- key to life as we know it," NASA posted on
Twitter.
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"With the discovery, we have made a giant accelerated leap forward in the search for habitable worlds and life on other worlds," Sara Seager, professor of
Planetary Science and Physics, MIT, said. "Potentially because with not just one
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The new results were published Wednesday in the journal Nature, and announced at a news briefing at the NASA Headquarters in Washington.
"The seven wonders of TRAPPIST-1 are the first Earth-size planets that have been found orbiting this kind of star," said Michael Gillon, lead author of the
paper and the principal investigator of the TRAPPIST exoplanet survey at the
University of Liege, Belgium.
TRAPPIST-1 Asics Shoes Sale , classified as an small, ultra-cool dwarf, is the new hot topic in astronomy and
the search for life outside our solar system. In contrast to our sun, the dwarf
is so cool that liquid water could survive on planets orbiting very close to it,
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In May 2016, astronomers announced the discovery of three planets in the system Cheap Asics Gel Kayano Shoes , but even then they suspected there might be a few more.
Assisted by several ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope confirmed the
existence of two of these planets and discovered five additional ones,
increasing the number of known planets in the system to seven.
Using Spitzer data, the research team precisely measured the sizes of the seven planets and developed first estimates of the masses of six of them,
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