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Hubble made my career.
There should be a water table on Mars.
Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction.
We live inside the atmosphere of an active star.
I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder.
There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard.
Together, NASA and Hubble are opening new vistas on the universe.
We thought of Uranus's atmosphere as pretty much dead. And it's not.
The Hubble images far surpassed anything taken by any telescope on Earth.
We've explored every type of environment in the solar system at least once.
We need people pushing the boundaries. Exploration is what we, as humans, do.
Weather forecast for Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt: cloudy with a chance of ammonia.
We really have only been observing Neptune with big telescopes since shortly before 1989.
The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected.
We don't use Hubble to stare at Jupiter unless there's a special event or some special reason.
The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars.
C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.
Hubble orbits high, outside Earth's atmosphere so it can see a wide spectrum of light our atmosphere blocks.
I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that.
Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics.
What I want to look at with Webb is what we call ice giants in our solar system - the planets Neptune and Uranus.
Hubble is absolutely unique; we must have a telescope in space to complement the very large telescopes on the ground.
By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet.
Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.
Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up.
I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.
If there were creatures on Uranus - and I don't think there are - seasonal affective disorder would be a lifetime thing.
The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community.
Even after years of observing, a new picture of Uranus from Keck Observatory can stop me in my tracks and make me say, 'Wow!'
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.
The Internet has made communication far more rapid. If there is a discovery, instantly around the world, anyone can confirm it.
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.
My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy.
Having the young people engaged, involved, and being the leaders themselves is a great way to capture them intellectually and emotionally.
You make sure you broaden yourself and have a good solid background in many different things. That's what you need to be a good scientist.
One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance.
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.
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.
Neptune's unusual behavior is showing us that though we can make great models of planetary atmospheric circulation, there may be key pieces missing.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are amateurs who have seen that one of Uranus' poles is brighter than the other, or who have seen cloud formations on the planet. For all we know, interesting things are happening there all the time.
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.