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The overprotection of Mars

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NATURE GEOSCIENCE
Volume 6, Issue 7, Pages 510-511

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1866

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Planetary protection policies aim to guard Solar System bodies from biological contamination from spacecraft. Costly efforts to sterilize Mars spacecraft need to be re-evaluated, as they are unnecessarily inhibiting a more ambitious agenda to search for extant life on Mars.

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