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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.
Why is planetary protection seen as a boondoggle, I asked?
Planetary protection guidelines say that robotic landers must not spread Earthly microbes to sites where life might exist on other planets.
Planetary protection isn't just a good idea: it's a mandate.
Planetary protection is, not surprisingly, a cross-disciplinary field.
Conley was appointed planetary protection officer in 2006.
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Venkateswaran's data will soon be entered into Bernadini's byzantine planetary-protection spreadsheet, which will spit out a number for Conley.
When she conducted the planetary-protection review of Curiosity's proposed landing site, at Gale Crater, she thought, "This is a flat site at the equator.
However, Catharine Conley, NASA's planetary-protection officer, is already at work co-authoring a formal rebuttal, to be published in Nature Geoscience in a few weeks.
The agency has even separated the functions of astrobiologist and planetary-protection officer so there is no apparent conflict of interest.And there is another question to be considered.
This paper describes the planetary-protection-related technical challenges awaiting an MSR mission as well as the range of capabilities being developed to meet these challenges.
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