The primary goal of the COSPAR Planetary Protection Policy is to avoid compromising the search for lifeforms on other celestial bodies and to protect the Earth from potential threats posed by extraterrestrial samples returned by interplanetary missions.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
  Planetary protection: an international concern and responsibility

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• Planetary protection: an international concern and responsibility www.frontiersin.org Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences via serper

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• COSPAR Policy on Planetary Protection concept
• celestial bodies concept
• Earth location