Subsequent studies on planetary protection have categorized space missions by type (e.g., landers vs. rovers, life-detection capabilities) and target (e.g., potentially life-bearing worlds like Mars or Europa vs. dead worlds like Mercury), typically concluding that a probability of 1-in-10,000 is the most reasonable requirement for forward contamination.

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  Putting the Ethics into Planetary Protection | News | Astrobiology

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• Putting the Ethics into Planetary Protection | News | Astrobiology astrobiology.nasa.gov NASA via serper

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