NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection

NASA’s Office of Plan­e­tary Protection



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The mis­sion of the Office of Plan­e­tary Pro­tec­tion is to pro­mote the respon­si­ble explo­ration of the solar sys­tem by imple­ment­ing and devel­op­ing efforts that pro­tect the sci­ence, explored envi­ron­ments, and Earth. The objec­tives of plan­e­tary pro­tec­tion are sev­er­al-fold and include: Pre­serv­ing our abil­i­ty to study oth­er worlds as they exist in their nat­ur­al states; avoid­ing the bio­log­i­cal con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of explored envi­ron­ments that may obscure our abil­i­ty to find life else­where – if it exists; and to ensure that we take pru­dent pre­cau­tions to pro­tect Earth’s bios­phere in case life does exist elsewhere.



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