Assessment of planetary protection requirements for Mars sample return missions
NASA maintains a planetary protection policy to avoid the forward biological contamination of other worlds by terrestrial organisms, and back biological contamination of Earth from the return of extraterrestrial materials by spaceflight missions. Forward-contamination issues related to Mars missions...
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Lingua: | inglese |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
c2009.
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Sommario:
- Introduction
- The potential for past or present habitable environments on Mars
- Advances in microbial ecology
- The potential for finding biosignatures in returned Martian samples
- The potential for large-scale effects
- Sample containment and biohazard evaluation
- Sample-receiving facility and program oversight.