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Mars exploration and the debate about planetary protection


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Mars exploration and the debate about planetary protection

Could planetary protection considerations hinder our plans to send humans to Mars?

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Planetary protection may sound like something from the realm of science fiction or like the precautions taken to avert an alien invasion of Earth. In fact, from a certain perspective, the latter is the better analogy. 

According to NASA, planetary protection is “the practice of protecting solar system bodies from contamination by Earth life and protecting Earth from possible life forms that may be returned from other solar system bodies.”

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The real question is, how far are we prepared to take this idea?  At what point do we determine a body in space to have no indigenous life forms?  Is there anything intrinsically wrong with introducing our own biomes?  I mean, we have tried and failed to protect the biomes of our own home world from invasive species, but a thousand years from now those invasive species will have integrated into the local biomes.

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