What if we bring back life from Mars?

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission is a decade-long project to bring back rocks and dust samples from Mars to Earth. The mission itself will be the most complicated robotic space mission ever undertaken, and bringing the samples back to Earth is only part of the challenge. Once on Earth, the samples will need to be treated as if they contain life-threatening pathogens. The samples will be stored in a maximum containment lab being built near the landing site in the Utah desert.
In a new report for the Bulletin, Valerie Brown writes about the challenges of the mission and how it fits into NASA’s history of space exploration and sample collection. So for our latest video, we decided to animate the journey from Mars to Earth to help illustrate the challenge and danger ahead.
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[@PaigeAcroCompChannel]

My question is "If we do bring back something dangerous, do we have a way to destroy it before it can harm or destroy people and Earth?"

[@robertfrances4978]

Venom

[@alejandrorp5160]

Seems cheaper to fix Earth rather than terraforming Mars

[@zdpastaman15]

Why not both?

[@circa1890]

Also, there are many here on Earth who still are not instigating enough change to combat Climate Change..
They might move up their priorities, if they knew how hard it is to accomplish what we have on Earth, elsewhere.

[@FelipeKana1]

​@@zdpastaman15because one is feasible - fixing earth. The other is just dreams and sci fi wishful thinking.

[@alejandrorp5160]

@@zdpastaman15 That’d be great, tbh. But Mars’ would prolly take centuries, some trial-and-error and substantial long-term thinking.

[@eternisedDragon7]

Terraforming Mars is an astronomically extreme crime, for reasons you have no idea about.

[@FelipeKana1]

The video could've used a less "joyful" tone, but regardless, good info. We really should figure out better ways to do astrobiology - better, cheaper, lighter equipment to send in roovers or with a crewed mission. Way safer and better than figuring out all this retrieval nonsense that could backfire horribly.

[@IAmNotABot9]

In the list of historical lab leaks and accidents, you forgot to mention COVID-19 in 2019, Wuhan...