Nathalie Cabrol

You have thawing of the ice.

So all this region is reactivated.

And maybe that's a way where you have pathways for life to move from the deep zone to

to closer to the surface.

This is why I am one of those scientists who thinks that life might not be so far from the surface than we think.

We probably won't.

That would be so amazing.

I'm thinking of that just because of this experience as well of extreme environments.

You know, you have to sit and look and listen, basically.

The story of my life, if I want to understand where microbes are located on Mars, I have to become the microbe, right?

Right.

This is the thought experiment.

And if I want to understand where ET is, then I have to become ET.

So it's a big stretch.

But in extreme environment, you sit in the desert for a while and you just, you know, try to understand where the wind's coming from, where the humidity, when it's showing up.

And then you start to understand the patterns of those things.

You need to know where water is, where the source of energy is going to be drawn from.

You need to find shelters.

And shelters don't mean that, for instance, you can have a water column of a lake or a river or whatnot, or the ocean.

It can be also a very thin environment.