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I am Geronimo Villanueva. I work

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at NASA as an associate investigator and it has an astrobiology group

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here at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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The Center for Astrobiology is a center that focuses

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on the study of the origin of life and

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and life on other planets. What I do is study principally astrophysics

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how life was on other planets and principally

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we focus on, for example, Mars. The first part is to go to places

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go collect data. In this case, we go to telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere

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in the Atacama desert in Chile

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We go to Maunaci Volcano in Hawaii and make observations.

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When we collect all of the data, what we do is

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we go to our labs at NASA and do physical chemical experiments

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so we can understand what we are measuring

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we are looking for the explanation of what we are looking at

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One of the great things about NASA is that it is a center that it has so much technology

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and very qualified people. NASA allows us to