Mars Sample Return: Issues and Recommendations

National Research Council

doi:10.17226/5563

Mars Sample Return:Issues and Recommendations (1997)

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Mars Sample Return

Issues and Recommendations(1997)

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National Research Council; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications; Space Studies Board; Task Group on Issues in Sample Return

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The Space Studies Board of the National Research Council (NRC) serves as the primary adviser to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on planetary protection policy, the purpose of which is to preserve conditions for future biological and organic exploration of planets and other solar system objects and to protect Earth and its biosphere from potential extraterrestrial sources of contamination. In October 1995 the NRC received a letter from NASA requesting that the Space Studies Board examine and provide advice on planetary protection issues related to possible sample-return missions to near-Earth solar system bodies.

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National Research Council. 1997. Mars Sample Return: Issues and Recommendations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.https://doi.org/10.17226/5563.

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58 pages |6 x 9
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Paperback: 978-0-309-05733-2
Ebook: 978-0-309-17487-9

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/5563

Contents

Table of Contents	skim chapter
FRONT MATTER	i-x
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY	1-7
1 INTRODUCTION	8-9
2 THE POSSIBILITY OF EXTANT LIFE ON MARS	10-16
3 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MARTIAN METEORITES	17-18
4 THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE-SCALE EFFECTS	19-22
5 SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS THAT COULD REDUCE UNCERTAINITY	23-26
6 EVALUATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SAMPLES RETURNED FROM MARS	27-29
7 THE SAMPLE-RECEIVING FACILITY	30-33
8 PROGRAM OVERSIGHT	34-36
9 TECHNOLOGY ISSUES	37-40
REFERENCES	41-44
APPENDIX: LETTER OF REQUEST	45-47

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