Sentences with phrase «planetary protection does»

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But that doesn't change the fact that Cassie Conley, NASA's planetary protection officer, is in charge of protecting Earth from alien invasions.

«What I didn't know at the time,» Conley says, «is the way the position is turned over: The current planetary protection officer finds somebody who's willing to come, brings them in, and then leaves.

Fortunately, the risk of contaminating the Red Planet is extremely slim, says Catharine Conley, NASA's planetary protection officer, who is charged with ensuring agency projects do not contaminate other solar system bodies.

Shapiro stresses that it is unclear whether Congress will give further funds to planetary protection, noting that if it doesn't, there is a risk of the money being taken away from space science.

To a planetary protection officer entrusted with keeping deadly life - forms out of Earth's biosphere, doing nothing is the one option that is completely unacceptable.

John Rummel, an astrobiologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and former NASA Planetary Protection Officer, told the room that he doesn't think there has to be a conflict.

If they did survive, say Fairén and Schulze - Makuch, «it is too late to protect Mars from terrestrial life, and we can safely relax the planetary protection policies.»