The National Academies’ Committee on Planetary Protection is hosting a virtual meeting that will inform NASA’s efforts to develop a prioritized list of factors that contribute to the potential release of terrestrial bioburden on the Mars surface, as well as the likelihood of microbial survival and replication.
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