Alan Stern Super Quotes

Alan Stern Super Quotese

I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, its atmosphere, I think they'll have a hard time saying 'That's not a planet' because it obviously will be, and I think most people are already coming to that opinion anyway, but I think that's really going to drive it home viscerally.

— Alan Stern

The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out to Neptune's orbit.

— Alan Stern

The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.

— Alan Stern

Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic abyss.

— Alan Stern

Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark of planethood.

— Alan Stern

People dig exploration.

— Alan Stern

I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.

— Alan Stern

Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.

— Alan Stern

Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.

— Alan Stern

CSF and its members believe strongly in the exploration of space of all kinds, including commercial purposes.

— Alan Stern

How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.

— Alan Stern

I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto.

— Alan Stern

The first mission to Mars did not expect to find craters and river valleys, and yet they did. The first mission to Jupiter didn't expect to find ocean worlds and volcano worlds, but they did.

— Alan Stern

We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.

— Alan Stern

Most of the oceans in the Solar System are deep beneath ice shelves.

— Alan Stern

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