Michael Meyer Quotes (11 Quotes)

Our main goal is to give students from all disciplines the background they need to appreciate the astronomical constraints on the origin and prospects for life elsewhere in the universe. We'll try to give the students the background they need to become 'critical consumers' of astronomy research and to connect what they learn to their own research areas.

If you have a larger deal, you can tap both (high-yield and leveraged loan) markets at attractive levels.

To see new gullies and other changes in Mars surface features on a time span of a few years presents us with a more active, dynamic planet than many suspected.

I think we have much more science to be done by this spacecraft itself, and it will serve an important function as a communications asset for future missions,

And the next thing you know, the Iraqis are coming out with cigarettes and candy and other stuff to give to us, ... At the same time, I think my lieutenant ... was kind of getting mad at me because I was kind of causing a ruckus of people getting candy instead of doing their job.

We think this is a tight, narrow ring of rocky objects similar to those in our asteroid belt, except this ring is five AU from its star, instead of two-to-three AU, the distance between our asteroid belt and the sun.

Dramatic discoveries ... about recent gullies, near-surface permafrost and ancient surface water have given us a new Mars in the past few years.

What the Mars orbital camera has revealed from this long and detailed study of the Red Planet is a dynamic Mars, a planet that can change not on the mind-boggling millions and billions of years, but on the order of years and decades.

This is going to be a real intellectual leap forward. You can start looking at (geological) processes -- hot springs, gullies, volcanoes -- and we can spot many more minerals.

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This is a unique opportunity to bring together young scientists from around the country -- indeed, from around the world -- to get first hand experience in the 'astronomy' of astrobiology.