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When we go to explore, we do it as a globe.

~Ellen Stofan

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People see space as a place where you go and cooperate.

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I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'

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There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

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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

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Instead of being able to look at smaller interesting research projects, I am trying to see the links between all the research NASA does. For me, that's extremely fun because I get to go play and learn about areas of science that I know nothing about.

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Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.

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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.

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Prior to Magellan, due to the fact that we knew it was so hot on Venus, we thought that the rocks at the surface would behave more plastically, more like Silly Putty than like solid rock in the way that we think of it, like the rocks that I'm sitting on.

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We have to ask, 'How can we break a huge challenge like sending humans to Mars into a series of doable, affordable steps? How can we break that problem down into chunks in order to keep making progress?'

~Ellen Stofan

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: February 24th, 1961

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