Nathalie Cabrol, Astrobiologist: “An Achievement of Science Is to Admit that We Don’t Know What Life Is”

Thick ice crust and up to minus 200 degrees - doesn't sound pleasant. Why the Saturn moon Enceladus is still promising in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Nathalie Cabrol is not a common scientist. The astrobiologist has two higher diving records. She conquered them without proposing to do so, while exploring Lake Licancabur, the volcano of about 6,000 meters high on the border between Chile and Bolivia. Cabrol (Paris, 1963) has been studying the Earth for decades to understand the possibility of human life in the extreme conditions of our galaxy. Menuda y de pelo cano, the explorer dresses vest o…