Heidi Hammel Quotes
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I'm happy here on the surface of the earth. If space travel ever got to be as simple as jet travel today, yeah, I'd take a jet flight to the moon.
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We've explored every type of environment in the solar system at least once.
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Weather forecast for Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt: cloudy with a chance of ammonia.
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No one planet can tell us everything about the universe, but Neptune seems to hold more than its share of information about the formation of our own solar system - as well as the solar systems beyond.
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When Hubble was launched, it became clear very shortly thereafter that there was a problem with the optics.The mirror was not quite the right shape. And the one program that I had really been looking forward to doing with Hubble was studying outer planets in our solar system, the planets Uranus and Neptune.
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Every observation that we make, every mission that we send to various places in the solar system is just taking us one step further to finding that truly habitable environment, a water-rich environment.
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Together, NASA and Hubble are opening new vistas on the universe.
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The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected.
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When I first heard that a comet was going to hit Jupiter, my reaction was, 'Eh. So what? Jupiter's huge. Comets are small. And so when I saw the first impact site and it was huge and dark, I was flabbergasted.
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Having high quality daycare is by far the most important thing you can do when your kids are little. When I relocated, I spent more time looking for daycare than I did looking for a house.
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What I want to look at with Webb is what we call ice giants in our solar system - the planets Neptune and Uranus.
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Webb will return extremely interesting measurements of chemistry in the Martian atmosphere. And most importantly, these Mars data will be immediately available to the planetary community to enable them to plan even more detailed Mars observations with Webb in future cycles.
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I would say the biggest challenge I had as a woman in science is be a mom. It's really hard. It's very hard work having children, and I tell kids this all the time.
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I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level push on it, is if some other country, perhaps China, were to actually have a landed flight to the moon and brought back our American flag and put it in Tiananmen Square.
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Even after years of observing, a new picture of Uranus from Keck Observatory can stop me in my tracks and make me say, 'Wow!'
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I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.
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If there were creatures on Uranus - and I don't think there are - seasonal affective disorder would be a lifetime thing.
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Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction.
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It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do it.
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By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet.
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Having the young people engaged, involved, and being the leaders themselves is a great way to capture them intellectually and emotionally.
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I feel like an old-fashioned mountain climber when I am making discoveries, seeing something for the first time, realizing that no human before me has ever seen what I am seeing. It takes your breath away - for just a moment, you feel a pause in time, as you know you are crossing a boundary into a new realm of knowledge.
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Amid apocalyptic dystopia, 'Fahrenheit 451''s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope that can arise, phoenix-like, from civilization's ashes.
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The thing about telescopes is that the mirror is the main component. Once that's built, you don't need to build new ones; you just need to swap out the instruments. There's nothing wrong with Hubble's mirror.