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" Because Hubble's been up so many years now, it's actually given us a window to things like... how planets' atmospheres actually change, evolve... over time. "
Heidi Hammel
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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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" We don't use Hubble to stare at Jupiter unless there's a special event or some special reason. "
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" Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up. "
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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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" The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected. "
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" The Internet has made communication far more rapid. If there is a discovery, instantly around the world, anyone can confirm it. "
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" If I see something that seems out of sync with what's already known, the first thing I do is try to find out what's wrong with the data. Once you've done that, and it still seems wrong, that's when things get interesting. It means you've found something new to understand. "
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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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" I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder. "
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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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" 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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" Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe - every field has questions that are awaiting the power of Hubble. "
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" When I was in college, I didn't like physics a lot, and I really wasn't very good at physics. And there were a lot of people around me who were really good at physics: I mean, scary good at physics. And they weren't much help to me, because I would say, 'How do you do this?' They'd say, 'Well, the answer's obvious.' "
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" Scientists normally like to do experiments. You know, they like to mix this with that and see what happens. They like to take this thing and poke it and see how it reacts. In astronomy, we can't do that. The stars, the planets, the galaxies, are so far away that we just look at them, and we have to learn things by looking at them. "
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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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" The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars. "
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" We thought of Uranus's atmosphere as pretty much dead. And it's not. "
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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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" Neptune's unusual behavior is showing us that though we can make great models of planetary atmospheric circulation, there may be key pieces missing. "
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" Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics. "
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" Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no. "
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" I think we need to be very careful if we want to do things like further modify our atmosphere. And similarly, I think we need to be very worried about unintentional modification, which is basically what's been going on. "
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" We really have only been observing Neptune with big telescopes since shortly before 1989. "
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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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" Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional. Don't just do a half baked job. Do everything correctly. Get down. Learn the details of what you're going to do. "
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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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" 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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" We need to know math to be a good scientist, but math is a language, and we need to learn the language because that's the language of science. "
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" Hubble made my career. "
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" We need people pushing the boundaries. Exploration is what we, as humans, do. "
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