Processing facility at NASA's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate (ARES)
The curation of extraterrestrial samples (astromaterials) obtained by sample-return missions takes place at facilities specially designed to preserve both the sample integrity and protect the Earth. Astromaterials are classified as either non-restricted or restricted, depending on the nature of the Solar System body. Non-restricted samples include the Moon, asteroids, comets, solar particles and space dust. Restricted bodies include planets or moons suspected to have either past or present habitable environments to microscopic life, and therefore must be treated as extremely biohazardous.
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The curation of extraterrestrialsamples (astromaterials) obtained by sample-return missions takes place at facilities specially designed to preserve both...
Planetary Material SampleCuration Facility (Japanese: 惑星物質試料受入れ設備) (PMSCF), commonly known as the ExtraterrestrialSampleCuration Center (ESCuC, 地球外試料キュレーションセンター)...
well as samples brought to Earth by sample return missions from the Moon, asteroids and comets, as well as solar wind particles. Extraterrestrial materials...
and other extraterrestrialsamples, along with associated data records. It also contains laboratories for processing and studying the samples without contamination...
sealed containers are opened. The samples will be curated and analyzed at JAXA's ExtraterrestrialSampleCuration Center, where international scientists...
Exoplanetology Extraterrestrial life – Life not on earth Extraterrestrialsamplecuration – Use and preservation of extraterrestrialsamples Forward-contamination –...
Yoshikawa M.; Kawaguchi J. (2014). "Hayabusa-returned samplecuration in the Planetary Material SampleCuration Facility of JAXA". Met. & Planet. Sci. 49 (2):...
near-infrared interferometric survey of debris-disk stars. IV. An unbiased sample of 92 southern stars observed in H band with VLTI/PIONIER". Astronomy &...
the case of sample-return missions, the aim of the mission is to return extraterrestrialsamples to Earth, and sterilization of the samples would make...
NASA SP-2000-4029. Retrieved August 1, 2013. "NASA Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility". NASA Curation Lunar. NASA. September 1, 2016. Archived from the original...
France, Kevin (September 2021). "The M-dwarf Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Sample. I. Determining Stellar Parameters for Field Stars". The Astrophysical Journal...
planetary materials including meteorites, Moon rocks and other extraterrestrialsamples returned by spacecraft missions. She is director of the School...
such pristine samples, there is a need to design a facility dedicated to curation of restricted (potentially biohazardous) extraterrestrial materials. The...
be of extraterrestrial origin, and definitely from the asteroid Itokawa. According to Japanese scientists, the composition of Hayabusa's samples was more...
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