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" There should be a water table on Mars. "
Heidi Hammel
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" Hubble orbits high, outside Earth's atmosphere so it can see a wide spectrum of light our atmosphere blocks. "
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" People have this idea that if you're not brilliant like Einstein, you can't be a scientist. And that's just a myth. He was the one out of a million scientists, but there were 999,999 other scientists who were not as brilliant but who just do great science, as well. "
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" C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard. "
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" We need to be very thoughtful about how we propose to spend the money that NASA does have for space exploration. And we need to be clear that there's the human spaceflight part of NASA, and there's the science space part of NASA, and there's also aeronautics. Those are all very different things that NASA does. "
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" I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that. "
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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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" Hubble made my career. "
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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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" Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction. "
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" We live inside the atmosphere of an active star. "
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" I don't think I could advocate for increasing NASA's budget by a factor of two or ten, because I want us to have good roads in our country. I want us to have good education in our country. And NASA's budget is part of a discretionary budget, and we can't make that bigger without taking away other things. "
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Education
Good
" What we're learning is that the sun and its warmth isn't the only way to get warmth in the solar system, and we've been thinking that for some time. "
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Thinking
Solar
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" I have a little piece of Hubble that someone brought back from one of the repair missions. It's on my desk, where I work. I do feel a personal connection to it. It's been part of my life for 20 years. "
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Connection
Life
" You have to budget time for the inevitable problems that come up with children. You have to always be ahead of the game. If your proposal is due at NASA on Friday, it has to be finished on Wednesday because, on Thursday, it could be fevers and head lice. "
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Children
Friday
" The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected. "
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Expected
" I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder. "
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Rocket
Being
MIT
" Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up. "
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Planets
Really
Great
" 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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Behavior
" 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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World
Communication
" People seem to be afraid of science, and certainly, people seem to be afraid of mathematics. And I think that's such a shame, because I don't think it's as hard as people seem to think it is. "
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Absolutely
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" Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet. "
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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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Interesting
Community
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Language
Know
" 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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Exploration
" My message is don't be discouraged by anything anybody tells you. In my case of the science thing, and I just ignored people who said, 'Oh, girls don't do that.' "
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