If you're worried about NASA's plan to bring Mars rocks back to Earth to study them, you probably don't need to be, scientists say.
nvolved in bringing samples from Mars back home., Mars rocks have already fallen to Earth in the form of meteorites "without any adverse effects to our biosphere."
"There has to be a long, long time of evolution for microbes to learn how to interact and attach onto animal cells, enter animal cells, and use the machinery of an animal cell to replicate," he told the newspaper. "That’s a very complex choreographed dance." "We won’t know if it’s sterile or not," retired Federal Aviation Administration and Mars aficionado Thomas Dehel told theof the samples. "We should know if we bring something back to Earth whether it’s sterile or not, to do some sort of crude test up front to see if there’s any kind of biological life.
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