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So this

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lab is called the Cosmic Ice Laboratory.

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And in this lab, we essentially try
to simulate the formation of ices

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that are found in deep space
in these giant

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interstellar molecular clouds.

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So when you think of an ice,
you think of water, ice cube.

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But in space,
the temperatures are super low.

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So everything is an ice.

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So one of the practical applications
of this work is, hypothetically speaking,

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if water were to arrive from an ocean
to the surface of a planetary body

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such as Europa,
we could then determine how long

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any potential biologically relevant
molecules could survive on the surface.

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It's not a really big lab,
but all you really need

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is a vacuum chamber
that can swat out molecules and atoms,

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and you need something that can cool