UM-Bot Posted April 18, 2020 #1 Share Posted April 18, 2020 The Mars sample-return mission will be one of the most challenging interplanetary endeavours ever undertaken. https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/336437/nasa-reveals-how-it-will-retrieve-a-piece-of-mars 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micahc Posted April 18, 2020 #2 Share Posted April 18, 2020 how do they know they will not bring back some dormant microbe or virus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted April 18, 2020 #3 Share Posted April 18, 2020 18 minutes ago, micahc said: how do they know they will not bring back some dormant microbe or virus? They take all the precautions to prevent cross contamination. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saru Posted April 18, 2020 #4 Share Posted April 18, 2020 1 hour ago, micahc said: how do they know they will not bring back some dormant microbe or virus? I believe there are plans to quarantine the samples once they are on Earth. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Smoke aLot Posted April 18, 2020 #5 Share Posted April 18, 2020 3 hours ago, micahc said: how do they know they will not bring back some dormant microbe or virus? As i know the Earth had decent number of Mars rocks getting in the atmosphere and some partly survived and hit the ground so there is no need to be concerned about microbes because - if they exist - they are already in the food chain here 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted April 18, 2020 #6 Share Posted April 18, 2020 43 minutes ago, Sir Smoke aLot said: As i know the Earth had decent number of Mars rocks getting in the atmosphere and some partly survived and hit the ground so there is no need to be concerned about microbes because - if they exist - they are already in the food chain here There is a big difference between a fresh rock that has been carefully retrieved from the surface of Mars and one that has been blasted into interplanetary space by a huge impact, spent several million years being alternately backed and frozen and then superheated as it enters the Earth's atmosphere. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Smoke aLot Posted April 18, 2020 #7 Share Posted April 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Waspie_Dwarf said: There is a big difference between a fresh rock that has been carefully retrieved from the surface of Mars and one that has been blasted into interplanetary space by a huge impact, spent several million years being alternately backed and frozen and then superheated as it enters the Earth's atmosphere. Something might survive all of that but yeah, there is much more to it as you say. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmcom Posted April 19, 2020 #8 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Least they cannot botch up the microbe content with a sly of hand oven experiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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