 NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and numerous other universities from around the world are collaborating on a project to study the microbialite life in the lakes.Called the "Pavilion Lake Research Project" (PLRP), its aim is to study what conditions on the lakes' bottoms are most likely to harbor life and develop a better hypothesis on how environmental factors affect microbialite life.The end goal of the project is to better understand what conditions// would likely harbor life on other planets.