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It's really essential to study our own solar system because that's

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sort of what we’re comparing all the other planets around other stars to.

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We had to make sure this highly sensitive, huge

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telescope that’s designed to detect the first stars and galaxies across the universe

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could actually look at the biggest and brightest things in the solar system that are also

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moving at very fast rates of motion. So it was my role to help establish

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moving target tracking for all these small bodies in the solar system.

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My science goal for JWST involves the

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entire solar system. So observing everything from near Earth

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object to giant planets and their satellites, icy worlds,

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Europa and Enceladus, things that have plumes and we suspect

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oceans under their surface, to the farthest reaches of the solar

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system, so things like trans-Neptunian objects or Kuiper Belt objects

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even Pluto and its satellites.

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