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A coming report will shed light on the Mars Sample Return mission's future. In the meantime, JPL awaits word, and two U.S. senators join the pressure campaign to preserve the mission.
A coming report will shed light on the Mars Sample Return mission's future. In the meantime, JPL awaits word, and two U.S. senators join the pressure campaign to preserve the mission.
Federal spending caps and inflation take a bite out of NASA's ambitions.
NASA are planning to return its Mars samples of rock and some dust / soil to biosafety level 4 facilities. That was fine in 2009. But the problem is that it doesn’t contain the very small microbes we now know exist called ultramicrobacteria which can get through a very tiny 0.1 micron nanopore and still be viable. The samples are in tubes on Mars.
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