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Researcher Alice Le Gall is trying to unravel the secrets of this moon of Saturn that has become a new eldorado for the search for life and its origins.
Satellite. Alice Le Gall, researcher at the Laboratoire atmosphères, milieux, observations spatiales (Latmos), in Versailles. The planetary scientist is pictured here on the Paris site of the research unit, at the Sorbonne, in 2021.
By Chloe Durand-Parenti
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«Ofas long as there is competition, I hate and panic. I prefer to take one, or even two steps aside, and go to what no one is interested in”, confides the planetary scientist Alice Le Gall, who is nevertheless – and perhaps even partly thanks to this – one of the most reputable scientists in her discipline. By learning to use what others leave out, such as passive data collected by radars on board space probes, the Parisian of Bearnese origin has not only made great discoveries but also acquired a rare skill, recognized on a global scale. And if, in terms of the search for extraterrestrial life, the undivided reign of Mars has recently passed, it is also a little thanks to her. Although this Supélec graduate worked on the…
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