Human Forward Contamination Assesment: Towards Protecting Potential Extant Life on Mars
Abstract
A team at NASA’s JSC has developed a prototype EVA swab tool designed to sample space suits and determine their current microbial loads. These data will inform exploration EVA suit design that will minimize contamination of the Moon and Mars.
- Publication:
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Mars Extant Life: What's Next?
- Pub Date:
- November 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019LPICo2108.5096B