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- From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
- Subject: Re: Sea floor Planetary Protection really.
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- In article <1992Dec31.204838.14165@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>, mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes...
- >On a related note, the designers of Viking were worried that
- >the Soviets would land a probe on Mars before their landing without
- >following strict sterilization procedures. This, they felt, might
- >contaminate Viking's biological results. Luckily, the soviets decided
- >to follow similar guidlines.
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- There still is a concern that some of the Soviet spacecraft that made
- it to the surface of Mars may have caused some kind of contamination.
- The Soviets have said that they have sterilzed their spacecraft, but they
- have never disclosed the method of sterilization.
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