Mars Sample Receiving Facility and sample containment: Difference between revisions

 

====Risk mitigation for the MSR receiving facilities====

To deal with the issues of unknown possibly very small forms of life in the sample, the ESF referred to their discussion of size limits (above) and concluded (Recommendation 7) that if possible, the facilities should be designed so that probability should be less than one in a million that a single unsterilised particle of 0.01 µm diameter or greater, if possible, and if that's not possible, that