Catharine Conley
Catharine Conley
Catharine Anastasia Conley became NASA's Planetary Protection Officer in 2006...
alive found lab spin surprised thinking worms
I can't say I was surprised the worms were alive because we spin them up to 2,000 G's in the lab without thinking about it. What surprised me was that they found the canisters at all.
found lab spin surprised thinking worms
I can't say I was surprised the worms were alive, because we spin them up to 2,000 G's in the lab without thinking about it. What surprised me was that they found the canisters at all.
argue chances eventually hit space survive thousands tough transit
Transit is the tough one. You could argue that something could survive tens of thousands of years of space travel, but the chances it eventually will hit something hospitable are really minimal.
animals complex creatures directly event exciting inside landing planet protection shows similar small survive
This is a very exciting result. It's the first demonstration that animals can survive a reentry event similar to what would be experienced inside a meteorite. It shows directly that even complex small creatures originating on one planet could survive landing on another without the protection of a spacecraft.