I was thinking more along the lines of instrumentation being "polluted" with compounds from earth, such as the mass spectrometer they use, etc. I wasn't suggesting we would introduce fridge mold to the martian topsoil:-)
I am wondering how many microscopic organisms might have survived the trip to Mars on the rovers, along with scientist's skin cells, etc. How clean are the clean rooms at JPL? This must have been a big concern during the building process.
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I was thinking more along the lines of instrumentation being "polluted" with compounds from earth, such as the mass spectrometer they use, etc. I wasn't suggesting we would introduce fridge mold to the martian topsoil :-)
I am wondering how many microscopic organisms might have survived the trip to Mars on the rovers, along with scientist's skin cells, etc. How clean are the clean rooms at JPL? This must have been a big concern during the building process.