• Question: what made you want to do the job you do?

    Asked by KANE PHILLIPS to Col Op, Elie, Floris, Jenn, RocketRich on 4 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by Lebron James, Georgie, Rona, Ella White, Octotiger🐙🐯, sadik and melisa.
    • Photo: Jenn Wadsworth

      Jenn Wadsworth answered on 4 Mar 2016:

      Astronomy (super cool) + Biology (awesome) = Astrobiology (amazingly awesome). No brainer 😉
      Actually getting to work on experiments that can help us understand the very nature of life and potential life elsewhere gets me out of bed every morning!

    • Photo: Floris Van Den Berg

      Floris Van Den Berg answered on 4 Mar 2016:

      In the ESA job ad they described the working place as White Mars as it is the closest you can get to life on another planet. Then I read the temperature drops to minus 80 and it’s dark for 100 days…

      As extreme is always appealing to me, I had to get the job, and I did!

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