1 00:00:12,390 --> 00:00:09,910 the deployment of nasa's planetary lake 2 00:00:14,390 --> 00:00:12,400 lander on laguna negra in central chile 3 00:00:15,990 --> 00:00:14,400 is providing scientists the opportunity 4 00:00:18,950 --> 00:00:16,000 to develop and test equipment that may 5 00:00:20,550 --> 00:00:18,960 be used in future space exploration 6 00:00:21,830 --> 00:00:20,560 dr natalie cabroul leads an 7 00:00:23,509 --> 00:00:21,840 international research team 8 00:00:25,830 --> 00:00:23,519 investigating the stark and challenging 9 00:00:27,670 --> 00:00:25,840 conditions of this high altitude lake 10 00:00:30,390 --> 00:00:27,680 conditions that may parallel places 11 00:00:31,830 --> 00:00:30,400 elsewhere in our solar system 12 00:00:33,590 --> 00:00:31,840 the pll 13 00:00:36,470 --> 00:00:33,600 team is international 14 00:00:39,190 --> 00:00:36,480 it has members from the u.s from chile 15 00:00:40,150 --> 00:00:39,200 from spain from austria from south 16 00:00:42,150 --> 00:00:40,160 africa 17 00:00:44,389 --> 00:00:42,160 it's a really an international team and 18 00:00:46,310 --> 00:00:44,399 a multi-disciplinary team as well 19 00:00:48,869 --> 00:00:46,320 we need to bring up people from many 20 00:00:50,709 --> 00:00:48,879 different expertise for instance for the 21 00:00:53,189 --> 00:00:50,719 technology we need to have roboticists 22 00:00:55,110 --> 00:00:53,199 and engineers and people were capable of 23 00:00:57,750 --> 00:00:55,120 writing codes and developing adaptive 24 00:00:58,389 --> 00:00:57,760 systems but also we want to understand 25 00:01:03,189 --> 00:00:58,399 the 26 00:01:04,469 --> 00:01:03,199 so for that we are bringing in a 27 00:01:07,109 --> 00:01:04,479 biologist 28 00:01:08,710 --> 00:01:07,119 and you know microbiology covers such a 29 00:01:10,789 --> 00:01:08,720 wide range that we have people looking 30 00:01:12,950 --> 00:01:10,799 at dna we have people looking at algae 31 00:01:15,350 --> 00:01:12,960 we have people looking at bacterias and 32 00:01:17,590 --> 00:01:15,360 we also have students in this team and 33 00:01:23,350 --> 00:01:17,600 this is really important because this is 34 00:01:27,109 --> 00:01:25,190 for more information on these topics go