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A recent paper published in Nature Geoscience claims that we’re overprotecting Mars from biological contamination. Authors Alberto Fairén and Dirk Schulze-Makuch argue that planetary protection policies should be reevaluated because they’re actually preventing more ambitious plans to help us find signs of life on Mars and other planets.

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