This workshop report, long delayed, is the first 21st century contribution to what will likely be a series of reports examining the effects of human exploration on the overall scientific study of Mars. The considerations of human-associated microbial contamination were last studied in a 1990 workshop ('Planetary Protection Issues and Future Mars Missions,' NASA CP-10086, 1991), but the timing of that workshop allowed neither a careful examination of the full range of issues, nor an appreciation for the Mars that has been revealed by the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Pathfinder missions. Future workshops will also have the advantage of Mars Odyssey, the Mars Exploration Rover missions, and ESA's Mars Express, but the Pingree Park workshop reported here had both the NCR's (1992) concern that 'Missions carrying humans to Mars will contaminate the planet' and over a decade of careful study of human exploration objectives to guide them and to reconcile. A daunting challenge, and one that is not going to be simple (as the working title of this meeting, 'When Ecologies Collide.' might suggest), it is clear that the planetary protection issues will have to be addressed to enable human explorers to safely and competently extend out knowledge about Mars, and its potential as a home for life whether martian or human.


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    Titel :

    Planetary Protection Issues in the Human Exploration of Mars


    Beteiligte:
    M. E. Criswell (Autor:in) / M. S. Race (Autor:in) / J. D. Rummel (Autor:in) / A. Baker (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2005


    Format / Umfang :

    88 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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