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Studying Mars to Understand Life on Earth
04:28 - 12:26 (07:58)
The lessons learned from studying the environment on Mars could help understand the conditions for life on Earth in the past. Researchers must understand the type of environments that could have allowed for the survival of microbial life in order to detect signs of life on future Mars missions.
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The speaker wishes that difficult things like therapy and going to the gym could be done online.
04:28 - 06:52 (02:24)
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The speaker wishes that difficult things like therapy and going to the gym could be done online. The ad for BetterHelp.com offers therapy services while the ad for Athletic Greens promotes its AG1 drink.
ChapterStudying Mars to Understand Life on Earth
Episode#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
Dr. Nathalie Cabrol talks about her work exploring the possibility of life on Mars and travels to extreme environments in search of organisms that live in conditions analogous to those on Mars.
06:52 - 10:04 (03:11)
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Dr. Nathalie Cabrol talks about her work exploring the possibility of life on Mars and travels to extreme environments in search of organisms that live in conditions analogous to those on Mars. During her postdoc, she started to look at where water was ponding on Mars and found that people were not as familiar with this aspect of water on the planet.
ChapterStudying Mars to Understand Life on Earth
Episode#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
In order to understand the conditions of Mars 3.5 - 4 billion years ago and ascertain what kind of instruments can be used to detect life, scientists explore similarly harsh environments on Earth to detect what kind of life currently exists there and understand its origins.
10:04 - 12:26 (02:22)
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In order to understand the conditions of Mars 3.5 - 4 billion years ago and ascertain what kind of instruments can be used to detect life, scientists explore similarly harsh environments on Earth to detect what kind of life currently exists there and understand its origins.