Heidi Hammel Quotes

Heidi Hammel

Profession : Scientist

Birth : March 14, 1960

There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard.

Heidi Hammel

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

When I first heard that a comet was going to hit Jupiter, my reaction was, 'Eh. So what? Jupiter's huge. Comets are small. And so when I saw the first impact site and it was huge and dark, I was flabbergasted.

Heidi Hammel

Hubble orbits high, outside Earth's atmosphere so it can see a wide spectrum of light our atmosphere blocks.

Heidi Hammel

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.

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The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community.

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

Heidi Hammel

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

Even after years of observing, a new picture of Uranus from Keck Observatory can stop me in my tracks and make me say, 'Wow!'

Heidi Hammel

Hubble is absolutely unique; we must have a telescope in space to complement the very large telescopes on the ground.

Heidi Hammel

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

Heidi Hammel