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post Feb 20 2006, 10:21 AM
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Well, we all know that the COSPAR treaty has set some rules to avoid contamination of the planets by 'bacteria' from Earth ... and a similar program exists to protect Earth's environment for 'alien' bacteria which could be brought back during sample-return missions.
I'm trying to make a list of Planetary Quarantine & Planetary Sterilisation measures which were taken for spacecraft bound to Mars:

e.g. Both Viking Landers were encapsulated in an enclosed bioshield and 'cooked' ( = heat sterilization ) in an oven at NEC for 30 hours at 111.7 degrees Celsius !

Trying to find out what was done for Mars Polar Lander, Pathfinder-Sojourner, MER Spirit & Opportunity, ... sad.gif
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- PhilCo126   Planetary Protection   Feb 20 2006, 10:21 AM
- - edstrick   Not much... They were made from hardware that was...   Feb 20 2006, 10:28 AM
- - djellison   The ultra clean processing of the Viking Landers (...   Feb 20 2006, 12:01 PM
- - PhilCo126   Correct Doug, Pathfinder-Sojourner was cleaned to ...   Feb 20 2006, 02:26 PM
- - djellison   Every B2 Component got treated by plasma or other ...   Feb 20 2006, 03:10 PM
- - PhilCo126   More information on Planetary protection --> C...   Feb 20 2006, 06:37 PM
- - djellison   Well - there's no ethical issue imho, as there...   Feb 20 2006, 07:50 PM
- - PhilCo126   Doug, You certainly have a point as the cross cont...   Feb 20 2006, 08:48 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   As Benton Clark points out, the existence of natur...   Feb 20 2006, 09:52 PM
- - Chmee   I beleive reasonable procautions should be taken s...   Feb 21 2006, 02:19 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   Where manned exploration is concerned, there are s...   Feb 21 2006, 02:47 AM
- - Myran   Speaking of the devil. this just came up, same sub...   Feb 21 2006, 10:48 PM
- - ljk4-1   Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars Com...   Apr 3 2006, 02:43 PM
- - PhilCo126   Both Viking orbiters were assembled at NASA-JPL, t...   Apr 15 2006, 04:09 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   I make no apologies for reposting this image of my...   Apr 15 2006, 09:14 PM
- - hal_9000   More here.. http://marstech.jpl.nasa.gov/content/...   Apr 15 2006, 09:27 PM

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