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" Weather forecast for Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt: cloudy with a chance of ammonia. "
Heidi Hammel
Chance
Belt
Cloudy
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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. "
Heidi Hammel
You
Right
Mean
" There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard. "
Heidi Hammel
Science
Everything
Hard
" 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. "
Heidi Hammel
Learning
Thinking
Solar
" I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder. "
Heidi Hammel
Rocket
Being
MIT
" 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. "
Heidi Hammel
Mission
Environment
Finding
" 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. "
Heidi Hammel
Brilliant
People
Science
" 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. "
Heidi Hammel
Mirror
Build
Wrong
" 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. "
Heidi Hammel
Moon
American Flag
Think
" The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected. "
Heidi Hammel
Successful
Been
Expected
" By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet. "
Heidi Hammel
Presence
May
Activity
" Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction. "
Heidi Hammel
Life
Interaction
Chemical
" Hubble is absolutely unique; we must have a telescope in space to complement the very large telescopes on the ground. "
Heidi Hammel
Unique
Absolutely
Ground
" 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.' "
Heidi Hammel
You
Science
Said
" 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. "
Heidi Hammel
Simple
Today
Travel
" 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
Like
Change
Now
" Together, NASA and Hubble are opening new vistas on the universe. "
Heidi Hammel
Together
New
NASA
" 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. "
Heidi Hammel
Future
Interesting
Community
" As you go further from the sun, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus are each colder in their upper atmosphere. But when you get to Neptune, it's just as warm as Uranus. "
Heidi Hammel
You
Atmosphere
Go
" If there were creatures on Uranus - and I don't think there are - seasonal affective disorder would be a lifetime thing. "
Heidi Hammel
Lifetime
Creatures
Think
" Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet. "
Heidi Hammel
Poet
Luck
Science
" 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. "
Heidi Hammel
Stars
Questions
Power
" Most people have already seen a cosmic collision. If you've seen a shooting star ever, you've seen a cosmic collision, because a shooting star is not a star. It's a tiny dust or pea sized fragment of an asteroid or a comet hitting our atmosphere and burning up as it hits in, as it comes in. "
Heidi Hammel
Shooting
Because
People
" 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. "
Heidi Hammel
Mathematics
People
Science
" Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics. "
Heidi Hammel
Got
Exploration
Politics
" 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. "
Heidi Hammel
Roads
Education
Good
" I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that. "
Heidi Hammel
Math
Kind
Science
" Neptune's unusual behavior is showing us that though we can make great models of planetary atmospheric circulation, there may be key pieces missing. "
Heidi Hammel
Missing
Key
Behavior
" 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. "
Heidi Hammel
Hope
Creativity
Courage
" 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. "
Heidi Hammel
Moment
Knowledge
Time
" The Hubble images far surpassed anything taken by any telescope on Earth. "
Heidi Hammel
Anything
Earth
Far