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Japan's mission to mine Mars' moon is cleared – now they've filled out the right paperwork on alien world contamination

imanidiot Silver badge

Plenty of junk left around. Earth is already well contaminated anyway, so we don't worry so much about it (less than we should probably). All the bits that end up on mars have gone through VERY extensive decontamination and sterilisation procedures, including things like the heat shields and parachutes that get jettisoned during the descent to the surface.

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