🚀 COSPAR’s inaugural International Planetary Protection Week continues! #COSPAR_IPPW

Yesterday’s sessions were dedicated to Mars exploration. Today it's all on the Panel on #PlanetaryProtection.

By bringing together international stakeholders, the IPPW facilitates international collaboration & knowledge exchange, advancing planetary protection activities – where we visit, we must protect 🌍🦠🔬

Dive deeper: https://cosparhq.cnes.fr/assets/uploads/2021/01/Research_Outreach_PPP_2020.pdf

📸 Global Mars in colour. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/G. Michael

🚀#COSPAR’s inaugural International Planetary Protection Week, hosted by AstrobiologyOU, has just begun!

Paul Bate, CEO of the UK Space Agency, has begun by welcoming participants at the Royal Society in London.

#COSPAR_IPPW is unique, facilitating knowledge exchange & international collaboration in planetary protection – where we visit, we must protect🌍🦠🔬

Experts will discuss life on icy worlds, Mars exploration, sample return missions & much more. Dive deeper: https://cosparhq.cnes.fr/assets/uploads/2021/01/Research_Outreach_PPP_2020.pdf