1/ Diverse organisms have been shown to survive sterilization protocols & conditions of space travel. This implies that we may already have contaminated Mars. If so, it may be challenging to distinguish any discovered life as Martian vs introduced from Earth... www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
The microbe was gathered from the agency's clean rooms, where experts build spacecraft in carefully controlled environments. The findings reveal gaps in the agency's procedures to prevent durable hitc...
