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Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.
- Ellen Stofan
#Communication
#Help
#I Am Happy
#I Am
We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.
- Ellen Stofan
#Mars
#Permanent
#Presence
#Talk
#Will
Humans can actually read a landscape, go through a lot of rocks - crack them open, throw them, pick up the next one. Rovers are great - they do amazing science - but it is a lot more tedious process; they go much less far than a human can cover in a day.
- Ellen Stofan
#Amazing
#Day
#Great
#Process
#Science
I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study.
- Ellen Stofan
#Better
#Doctor
#Earth
#Nothing
#Person
A lot of my role is advocacy, and as a scientist, you're an advocate, too, because you are coming up with a theory and having to convince your fellow scientists that you're right.
- Ellen Stofan
#Advocacy
#Advocate
#Coming
#Right
#Up
'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.
- Ellen Stofan
#Fiction
#Make
#May
#NASA
#Reality
We actually look to the scientific community to kind of come back to NASA and tell us what the priorities should be. And then at NASA, we try to look within our budget and say, 'What can we accommodate, and what are the most important things for the nation?'
- Ellen Stofan
#Community
#Important
#Look
#Priorities
We're going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system.
- Ellen Stofan
#Life
#Solar System
#Solar
#Understand
If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly.
- Ellen Stofan
#Atmosphere
#Earth
#Find
#Way
#Yourself
Water-based life is very much an Earth-centric view, and we can push the envelope on that here in our own solar system. We have the methane seas of Titan.
- Ellen Stofan
#Life
#Push
#Solar System
#Solar
#View
When you look at Venus and the Earth, they formed at about the same place in the solar system. They're made of about the same materials; they're about the same size.
- Ellen Stofan
#Earth
#Look
#Place
#Solar System
#Solar
What we expect to find, certainly in our own solar system, are probably simple single or multiple-cell forms of life. To get to intelligent life takes stability of conditions over huge, long periods of time.
- Ellen Stofan
#Life
#Long
#Simple
#Solar System
#Time
I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'
- Ellen Stofan
#Dune
#I Wish
#Someone
#Wish
#Would
The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.
- Ellen Stofan
#Solar System
#Solar
#Universe
#Wonder
As chief scientist, it's sort of my job to look at bridges between what we do and to see the connections. But when we try to understand how are planets around other stars habitable... to looking back at the Earth - how are the changes that are taking place, how are they going to affect humanity?
- Ellen Stofan
#Humanity
#Look
#Looking Back
#See
#Stars
To avoid congestion, I get up at 5:10, grab a slice of raisin toast, and leave the house at 6 A.M. My husband, Tim Dunn, who works for an environmental agency, is still asleep when I slip out, and I find that rather annoying.
- Ellen Stofan
#Avoid
#Environmental
#Find
#House
#Leave
Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world.
- Ellen Stofan
#New
#Space
#Thrive
#Will
#World
We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.
- Ellen Stofan
#Get
#Living
#Mars
#Space
#Want
You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.
- Ellen Stofan
#Economy
#Good
#Inspirational
#Like
#See
#Space
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