To Prevent a Martian Plague, NASA Needs to Build a Very Special Lab
The likelihood is low that bringing rocks to Earth from the red planet will make us sick, but the space agency isn’t taking any chances.
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The likelihood is low that bringing rocks to Earth from the red planet will make us sick, but the space agency isn’t taking any chances.
, Updated 14 Dec 2020, 14:10 GMT Dr. Daniel H. Anderson, an aerospace technologist and test director in the Nonsterile Nitrogen Processing Laboratory in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Center looks at much-discussed Apollo 14 basketball-size rock through a microscope. The two moon-exploring crew men of Apollo 14 brought back 90-odd pounds of lunar sample material from their two periods of extravehicular activity on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro area. Photograph by NASA On a clear December morning, a team of scientists followed a homing beacon into the remote Austr...