72 Quotes by Heidi Hammel

We live inside the atmosphere of an active star.

We need people pushing the boundaries. Exploration is what we, as humans, do.

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.

What I want to look at with Webb is what we call ice giants in our solar system - the planets Neptune and Uranus.

We've explored every type of environment in the solar system at least once.

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

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.

We thought of Uranus's atmosphere as pretty much dead. And it's not.

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.