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Planetary protection technologies for planetary science instruments, spacecraft, and missions: Report of the NASA
John D Rummel1, D E Betsy Pugel2
1SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States.
Abstract:
Planetary bodies like Mars, Europa, and Enceladus pose the question, "How to study them without contaminating them and destroying future prospects to detect life, if it is there?" The natural trade-off, of course, is that the cleaner your spacecraft, the more you can explore such a body without risk of contaminating it. As chartered by NASA Headquarters, the Planetary Protection Technology Definition Team (PPTDT) was asked to provide a report covering six different areas related to the engineering and technology challenges of implementing planetary protection requirements on solar system exploration missions.
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