On Mars, there are
aliens, and they came to the Earth. Paradoxically, this argument is designed to
ease the process of sterilization, which must pass each spacecraft so as not to
bring the Red Planet terrestrial microbes.
These limitations have
made the search for life on Mars is costly and inefficient,
say Dirk
Schulze-Makukh from the University of Washington and Alberto Fire at Cornell
University (both - USA). Meanwhile, there is no perfect sterilization, and we
are likely to have trace amounts of contaminating Mars terrestrial life forms.
And if sterilization is
still useless, it should be sent to the Red Planet station and rovers that will
dig deeper and a more complex experiments. Or, the money saved could be spent
on creating a more diverse spacecraft.
A group retort
sterilization in that it saves us from having to spend time and resources on
false alarms, and the Martian ecosystem (if they exist) - from irretrievable
change. One of the purposes of sterilization - protecting ourselves from the
consequences of our own ignorance, emphasizes Catherine Conley of NASA.
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