NASA Needs New Plan to Avoid Contaminating Other Worlds

Wired News Thursday 19th April, 2012

These findings raised two prospects, one exciting, one worrisome. The Solar System could be much more hospitable to life than we ever thought, but if we sent probes looking for it, there was the chance we could transfer an Earth-origin extremophile to the new world, ruining everything. To that end, NASA established some rough guidelines for how to treat the risk of contamination on its deep space probes. Recently, the National Academies of Scienc...

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