Have all other groups sterilized previous martian landers? if not then the planet has already been contaminated.
Whasnt it LDEF that came back home and much to scientists surprise terrestrial organisms that werent removed from the structure (ie they were NOT intended payloads) prior to launch had survived floating around exposed space for quite some time, to be brough back home with the staellite when it was retrived
From: "Rosemary Hackney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dave Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"metlist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] sterilizing that probe...!
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 01:16:14 -0600
Ethylene oxide.
Rosie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "metlist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 12:51 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] sterilizing that probe...!
> Hi,
> Somewhat off-topic I know but... I have been trying to figure out how one
> can sterilize these various Mars probes, knowing how tenacious life can
seem
> to be.
> Surely NASA cannot be seen to contaminate the (potential) Martian
biosphere
> and there is a lot of hardware that needs to be quite literally 100%
> sterile - otherwise, how would one know whether or not the signatures of
> life that may be found were not terrestrial in origin?
> How on Earth does one sterilize Mylar, for example?
>
> Unknowledgebly yours
>
>
>
> dave
>
> IMCA #0092
>
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