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- Subject: Contamination / Surveyor
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 14:00:12 GMT
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- I recall reading that when an Apollo brought
- back parts from a Surveyor, NASA was surprised and
- worried to find earthly contamination on them, implying
- that certain bugs can survive the vacuum and radiation,
- and also that the pre-flight decontamination was inadequate.
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- can anyone describe how this changed pre-flight
- decontamination procedures, and what was learned about
- the bugs ?
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- I've read where the Mars SNAKE probe might use
- either heat decontamination or hydrogen peroxide gas,
- it hasn't been determined which, and so it is being
- designed with either/both in mind.
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- * Fred Baube * when you think your Toys you hear Laughter
- * Optiplan O.Y. * have gone Berserk cracking through the Walls
- * baube@optiplan.fi * it's an illUsion you're sent Spinning
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