Planetary Protection: Preventing contamination

Описание: There are microorganisms that can survive the harsh radiation and vacuum of space, and this makes them a real concern for scientists. If microbes managed to hitch a ride to another planet or moon, they could compromise the scientific findings we made there, and even be dangerous to any native life that might be present. Sample return missions could even endanger us on Earth if they were to bring something unexpected back with them. This video covers the Planetary Protection Guidelines, forward contamination and backward contamination, and the questions asked to protect Earth and the Solar System.

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Narrated by
Anna Ptaszynski

Written by
Thomas Cheney
Rob Hawthorn

Script Editors
Hannah Cooper
Anna Ptaszynski

Design and animation
Michael Dring

Directed by
Rob Hawthorn

Produced by
Made by Gravity
http://www.madebygravity.co

Thanks to
NASA
ESA
Karen Olsson-Francis
Victoria Pearson

Special thanks to
Louise Thomas
James Harkin

Funded by
OU Strategic Priorities Fund Quality Related (SPFQR) (Research England)