It has been widely understood for many years that an essential component of a Mars Sample Return mission is a Sample Receiving Facility (SRF). The purpose of such a facility would be to take delivery of the flight hardware that lands on Earth, open the spacecraft and extract the sample container and samples, and conduct an agreed upon test protocol, while ensuring strict containment and contamination control of the samples while in the SRF. Any samples that are found to be non-hazardous (or are rendered non-hazardous by sterilization) would then be transferred to long-term curation. Although the general concept of an SRF is relatively straightforward, there has been considerable discussion about implementation planning.


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    Title :

    The Mars Sample Return Lab(s) - Lessons from the Past and Implications for the Future


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Conference on Life Detection in Extraterrestrial Samples ; 2012 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2012-02-15


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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