But, she said, "there are some spectacular scientists and other individuals on the NOAA team.
That part of the mission was a little less spectacular, with scientists sitting around their desks and watching the messages come in on computer screens.
I have been fortunate as a lot of spectacular young scientists have come to the lab and they always bring fresh and interesting ideas, so I listen to them and we learn from each other.
Stanley L. Miller, a scientist whose spectacular discovery as a young graduate student pioneered the study of the origin of life on earth, died Sunday at a hospital near his home in National City, Calif.
The images are "a spectacular development," says planetary scientist John Spencer of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
"It's just a spectacular story," says planetary scientist Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, whose team has discovered the fragments of the cosmic catastrophe.
And the results were as spectacular as all those scientists had predicted, with more than 40 previously unidentified species discovered in just five weeks of exploration, including 16 new kinds of frog, three new fish and a giant rat.
New software offers scientists a spectacular peek into the formation and movement of every single cell within an embryo.
The researchers caution that their link may turn out to be as limited as the first one, but Michael Polymeropoulos of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, a member of the team that found the first gene, says the new work is "spectacular" and will help scientists figure out what goes wrong in brain cells to cause the disease.
Affixed to NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, about 1 million miles from Earth, EPIC takes a color image of the sunlit side of Earth at least once every two hours, providing a spectacular vantage point for scientists and mere mortals.
