[meteorite-list] Mars life concerns

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Jul 19 13:30:24 2005
Message-ID: <200507191729.j6JHTZa18260_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

>
> 1. What you seemed to be emphasizing in your first post was the probability
> that the astronauts contaminated specifically the (apparently virgin) part of
> the camera insulation during there journey back to earth.

To me, the most likely point of contamination occurred when the camera
was brought into the Apollo capsule. There would be ingassing into the
camera when it was brought in from the vacuum of space. The fact that the
camera wasn't in a sealed container for 5 days after that didn't help
either. I can't ruled out a laboratory breach as Jaffe noted, either, but
I think the more likely cause was the camera being exposed to the air
within the Apollo capsule.

Ron Baalke
Received on Tue 19 Jul 2005 01:29:34 PM PDT