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    Planetary protection is a guiding principle in the design of an interplanetary mission, aiming to prevent biological contamination of both the target celestial...
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    hypothetical set of planetary engineering projects that would modify Mars to allow terrestrial life to survive free of protection or mediation. Proposals...
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  • matters under the terms “planetary quarantine” and later “planetary protection”, and has formulated a COSPAR planetary protection policy with associated...
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    "COSPAR Planetary Protection Policy" (PDF). 24 March 2011 [20 October 2002]. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2013. "7 Planetary Protection for...
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    Cooper-Stricker (born 1985) is an American astronomer, and the Lead of Planetary Protection for the Mars 2020 Mission and is involved with the InSight Mission...
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    their contamination. The SETI Institute has a contract to manage planetary protection measures for NASA. Computer renderings of some permanently shadowed...
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    the harsh surface environment of Venus, Venus has been under the planetary protection category two. This indicates that there is only a remote chance that...
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  • of astrobiology". A guiding principle in astroethics is that of Planetary Protection (PP), which seeks to prevent the introduction of lifeforms from Earth...
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    Solar System. Space agencies have implemented planetary protection procedures to reduce the risk of planetary contamination, but microorganisms such as Tersicoccus...
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    American biogeochemist and astrobiologist who served as the 7th Planetary Protection Officer for NASA from 2018 to 2021 under President Donald Trump....
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    channels Planetary protection Water on Mars Kirby, Runyon; Ojha, Lujendra (August 18, 2014). "Recurring Slope Lineae". Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms...
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    Agencies conducting interplanetary missions are guided by COSPAR's planetary protection policies, to have at most 300,000 spores on the exterior of the craft—and...
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  • governed by the Outer Space Treaty and the COSPAR guidelines for planetary protection. Forward contamination is prevented primarily by sterilizing the...
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    approaches to meet the science goals and objectives of the mission. Planetary protection guidelines require that inadvertent contamination of a Europan ocean...
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    the target of a sample-return mission in the foreseeable future. Planetary protection aims to prevent biological contamination of both the target celestial...
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  • life debate MERMOZ Nexus for Exoplanet System Science Noogenesis Planetary protection Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact Post-detection...
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  • rules of planetary protection against potentially hazardous extraterrestrial life. COSPAR also provides guidelines for planetary protection. A committee...
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  • Catharine Anastasia Conley was NASA's 6th Planetary Protection Officer from 2006 through 2018. Conley received her bachelor's from MIT, a Ph.D. in Plant...
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  • Protection policy may refer to: Policies Information protection policy Data protection policy Planetary protection policy Whistleblower protection policy...
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    solid fuel). Starting in 2015, a new effort for planetary protection moved the backward planetary protection function from the surface of Mars to the sample...
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    to maintain the safety and health of the space environment, as well as planetary environments. Similar to sustainability initiatives on Earth, space sustainability...
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    bandwidth and signal strength. Section 7 covers the development of a Planetary Protection Protocol and highlights its importance when exploring martian caves...
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  • free dictionary. OPP, O.P.P., or Opp may refer to: NASA's Office of Planetary Protection One Police Plaza (1PP), the Police headquarters in New York City...
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  • geysers up close. Planetary protection of Mars aims to prevent biological contamination of the planet. A major goal is to preserve the planetary record of natural...
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    the Wayback Machine July 2012, ISBN 978-2-918428-67-1 – see Back Planetary Protection section (for more details of the document see abstract) This article...
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  • is an American microbiologist who serves as the 8th and current Planetary Protection Officer for NASA since 2021 under President Joe Biden. He has a Bachelor...
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  • Project Starlight is a research project of the University of California, Santa Barbara to develop a fleet of laser beam-propelled interstellar probes and...
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    operations and drill placement. The mission must comply with the planetary protection requirements established by NASA and the international Committee...
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    consider in extraterrestrial real estate, including transportation, planetary protection, sustainability, astrobiology, how an extraterrestrial real estate...
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    chauvinism and surfacism) Space manufacturing Environmental dumping Planetary protection Planetary defense Isolationism For presence, in itself (see Human outpost...
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