Re: Fungal strains in space spark worry - we might have already contaminated --

Le 2026-05-08 à 10:58, Jim Wilkins a écrit :
> "Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> 
>> This is significant because it also affects how returned samples must 
>> be treated and handled.
> 
> In brief, we can't sterilize a sample that cost billions until we learn 
> that we must.
> 
> Have we already been infected and developed immunity?
> https://www.space.com/mars-meteorites-on-earth-mystery
> "Meteorites from a variety of sources have been discovered across 
> Earth's surface for thousands of years, but Mars wasn't suggested as a 
> possible source of this bombardment until the 1970s when measurements of 
> the Martian atmosphere made by NASA's Viking orbiters were found to 
> match gases locked in these space rocks."
> 
And, we can assume that rocks from the Earth made their way to Mars, as 
well as Jovian moons.