Planetary Protection Classification of Sample Return Missions from the Martian Moons

by European Science Foundation

An international consensus policy to prevent the biological cross-contamination of planetary bodies exists and is maintained by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) of the International Council for Science, which is consultative to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Currently, COSPAR's planetary protection policy does not specify the status of sample-return missions from Phobos or Deimos, the moons of Mars. Although...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309488591
• ISBN13: 9780309488594
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 74 Pages