Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up. — Heidi Hammel Close-up Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just… — Heidi Hammel Chance Copy Share Image
What we're learning is that the sun and its warmth isn't the only way to get warmth in the solar system, and… — Heidi Hammel Learning Copy Share Image
The Internet has made communication far more rapid. If there is a discovery, instantly around the world, anyone can confirm it. — Heidi Hammel Around the world Copy Share Image
By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet. — Heidi Hammel May Copy Share Image
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 Being Copy Share Image
The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community. — Heidi Hammel Astronaut Copy Share Image
My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific… — Heidi Hammel Country Copy Share Image
I think we need to be very careful if we want to do things like further modify our atmosphere. And similarly, I… — Heidi Hammel Careful Copy Share Image
Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies,… — Heidi Hammel Astronomy Copy Share Image
Every observation that we make, every mission that we send to various places in the solar system is just taking us one… — Heidi Hammel Environment Copy Share Image
When I first heard that a comet was going to hit Jupiter, my reaction was, 'Eh. So what? Jupiter's huge. Comets are… — Heidi Hammel Dark Copy Share Image
You have to budget time for the inevitable problems that come up with children. You have to always be ahead of the… — Heidi Hammel Ahead of the game Copy Share Image
I think religion and science operate in different regimes. Religion is a belief system that tries to give meaning and comprehension to… — Heidi Hammel Belief Copy Share Image
I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an… — Heidi Hammel American Copy Share Image
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… — Heidi Hammel Brilliant Copy Share Image
I'm happy here on the surface of the earth. If space travel ever got to be as simple as jet travel today,… — Heidi Hammel Moon Copy Share Image
It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will… — Heidi Hammel Exploration Copy Share Image
I would say the biggest challenge I had as a woman in science is be a mom. It's really hard. It's very… — Heidi Hammel Biggest challenge Copy Share Image
Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics. — Heidi Hammel Because Copy Share Image
It's very clear that global climate change is occurring on earth, but it's also been very clear that that has always happened… — Heidi Hammel Change Copy Share Image
There are amateurs who have seen that one of Uranus' poles is brighter than the other, or who have seen cloud formations… — Heidi Hammel Cloud Copy Share Image
Having high quality daycare is by far the most important thing you can do when your kids are little. When I relocated,… — Heidi Hammel Daycare Copy Share Image
Amid apocalyptic dystopia, 'Fahrenheit 451''s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope… — Heidi Hammel Courage Copy Share Image
If I see something that seems out of sync with what's already known, the first thing I do is try to find… — Heidi Hammel Data Copy Share Image
Hubble wasn't designed to look at objects in our solar system, but after it was launched, astronomers realized that with just a… — Heidi Hammel Hubble Copy Share Image
Climates always change. The question is, how are we going to adapt to climate change? Now, it may be true that we… — Heidi Hammel Adapt Copy Share Image
When Hubble was launched, it became clear very shortly thereafter that there was a problem with the optics.The mirror was not quite… — Heidi Hammel Forward Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I didn't like physics a lot, and I really wasn't very good at physics. And there were… — Heidi Hammel College Copy Share Image
Webb will return extremely interesting measurements of chemistry in the Martian atmosphere. And most importantly, these Mars data will be immediately available… — Heidi Hammel Chemistry Copy Share Image
Scientists normally like to do experiments. You know, they like to mix this with that and see what happens. They like to… — Heidi Hammel Astronomy Copy Share Image
I have a little piece of Hubble that someone brought back from one of the repair missions. It's on my desk, where… — Heidi Hammel Connection Copy Share Image
