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Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies

Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies :Framework for Decision Making

Format : Paperback / softback
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN : 9780309061360
Publication Year : 1998
Language : English

Considers the possibility that life may have existed on a body from which a sample might be taken and the possibility that life still exists on the body either in active form or in a form that could be reactiviated. This book addresses the potential hazard to terrestrial ecosystems from extraterrestrial life if it exists in a returned sample.