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NASA’s planetary protection officer will defend Mars, not Earth

3 August 2017

A NASA job advert has made for excited headlines, but the agency isn’t hiring someone to protect us from aliens – it wants someone to protect alien microbes from us

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NASA’s planetary protection officer will defend Mars, not Earth

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