Mars: Curiosity Will Contaminate Planet - Strict procedures were breached !

Well will never know now if Mars had or has Life !


"Mars may be contaminated by microbes from Earth after strict procedures were breached before the Curiosity probe launched, a key Nasa official has revealed.

A sterilised drill bit was reportedly loaded into a drill on the rover by engineers before take-off, when it should have been automatically fitted once Curiosity landed.

The technical staff are said to have decided to open the microbe-free box containing the bit themselves because they feared a rough landing would damage the automated mechanism."


[link to news.sky.com]