Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars by Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars
National Academies Press | March 30, 2006 | English | ISBN: 030909724X | 166 pages | PDF | 32 MB
National Academies Press | March 30, 2006 | English | ISBN: 030909724X | 166 pages | PDF | 32 MB
Recent spacecraft and robotic probes to Mars have yielded data that are changing our understanding significantly about the possibility of existing or past life on that planet. Coupled with advances in biology and life-detection techniques, these developments place increasing importance on the need to protect Mars from contamination by Earth-borne organisms.