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Preventing the forward contamination of Mars /

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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars, National Research Council (U.S.). Space Studies Board, National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Policies and practices in planetary protection
  • Future Mars exploration: the rolling wave
  • Environments on Mars relative to life
  • Expanding our knowledge of the limits of life on Earth
  • Advances in technologies for life detection and bioburden reduction
  • Assessing non-living contaminants of concern
  • A path forward for planetary protection in the 21st century
  • Transition process and time line.