seger. chairman cruz, ranking members and committee members, thank you for the opportunity to appear today. i open with a quote from one of our founding fathers, john adams. goodnomers tell us, with reason, that not only all the planets and satellites and our solar system, but all the unnumbered worlds, are inhabited. it is amazing day believe there is life everywhere. although we don't have evidence for life beyond earth, we are the first generation with the capability to find it. we know of thousands of planets orbiting other stars, and as we've heard of -- solar system bodies with evidence of subsystem liquid water. and because water is required for all life as we know it, these bodies may be able to support life. we've heard from other witnesses that nasa's new planet hunting mission that launched on august 18, test, started operations on july 21. in august, it will be delivering the first data to earth. my team is ready to go, and i thought you might be -- might appreciate knowing that

seger's research has introduced new ideas on the for the study of exoplanets. she was part of the team to detect the first emission of light froman exoplanet. -- from and exoplanet. she has committed swabs of research on all kinds of exoplanets. she received her phd in astronomy from harvard university. i would know, with all of these phd's, i think the senators here are all badly undereducated. we will have our first witness, dr. zuburchen. >> thank you. chairman cruise, ranking members and members of the subcommittee, the work of nasa scientists at the forefront of scientific discovery and innovation. the questions we seek to answer affect humanity on a global scale and focus on our place in the universe. where did we come from? are we alone? questions that are well aligned with the topic of this hearing. later this month, nasa will launch our next daring mission, which will touch the sun, by flying deep through its atmosphere. the first spacecraft designed to do so, and will revolutionize our understanding of the sun's corona, and the solar wind. this missio

doctor seger's research has introduced many new ideas for the study of xo planets. in fact, she was part of a team that helped discover the first detection of light emitted from an xo planets. she is conducted swaths of research on theoretical models of atmospheres and interiors of all types of xo planets. i would note with all of these phd's, i think the senators sitting here are all badly undereducated. with that, we'll have our first witness, doctor thomas zurbuchen. >> chairman ted cruz, senator nelson and members of the subcommittee, the work of nasa is at the forefront of scientific discovery and innovation. the questions we seek to answer affect humanity on a global scale and focus on our place in the universe. where did we come from? are we alone? questions that are well aligned with the topic of this hearing. later this month, nasa will launch a mission which will touch the son by actually flying the through its atmosphere. the parker solar probe is the first spacecraft designed to do so and will revolutionize our understanding of the sun's corona and expan

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doctor seger. >> chairman cruz, ranking member markey, and committee members, thank you for the opportunity to be here today. i open with a quote from one of our founding fathers, john adams, astronomers tell us with good reason that not only all the planets and satellites in our solar system but all the worlds that revolve around the stars are inhabited. they believe there was life everywhere. we don't have evidence for life beyond earth but we are the first generation with the capability to find it. we know stars are sons, we know of thousands of planets orbiting other stars called xo planets. we heard from other witnesses we have a growing list of bodies with evidence of subsurface liquid water including mars, europa, and to send others and because water is required for all life as we know these bodies might be able to support life. we heard from other witnesses that the new planet hunting mission launched on august 18th, started science operations july 21st and next week in august it will be delivering the first science data to earth. my team is ready to go and i thought you might appre

. >> doctor seger talking about quieter as they should process. we only have so much money. are you satisfied with the prioritization process? >> it is a question worth asking. >> i thought i would start with you because you are from massachusetts. the link you heard many times witnesses always go back to the survey that is a structure forced to abide by but any institution structure around for more than half a century should be reviewed to see if it is still effective. it is time to take a better loo look. there is room for improvement which i will not go into now. >> give us one example. >> in many areas of space science we have so all community feels if they don't have one mission then it will never select mom -- be selected so that means the community wants to put forward missions that are very complicated and the question is are we had a place where we should have morere focused mission and not try to do everything in one place? we can do that in the current p? formulation in the comment that they are the first to use instagram but also the way the hierarchy of the surv