Colonizing Mars Means Contaminating Mars — And Never Knowing For Sure If It Had Its Own Native Life

Monday, November 12, 2018 - 07:40 in Astronomy & Space

Before that happens, we need to recognize that a very real possibility exists that the first human steps on the Martian surface will lead to a collision between terrestrial life and biota native to Mars.

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