NASA Urged to Keep Microbes From Mars

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<font color="yellow">While Earth germs may not kill attacking Martians as they did in "War of the Worlds," a new study is calling on NASA to prevent contamination of Mars with microbes from our planet.<br /><br />NASA is planning a return to the Moon and eventually to send manned spacecraft to Mars, and the National Research Council warned Monday that if life forms from Earth were able to survive the trip they could contaminate the Red Planet.<br /> <br />That could interfere with investigations to detect any life that might be native to Mars, said the council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences.</font><br /><br />Full story here:<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/25/AR2005072500934.html<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <strong><font color="#3366ff">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild.</font> - <font color="#3366ff"><em>Tennyson</em></font></strong> </div>

 

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Related story here: <br /><br />http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jul252005/snt2223202005724.asp <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <strong><font color="#3366ff">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild.</font> - <font color="#3366ff"><em>Tennyson</em></font></strong> </div>