Of coarse not! Hugh Gregory would be the guy to ask. At a party years ago I met an older Russian who said he was an engineer on the early Mars lander missions and he claimed they did sterilize the spacecraft. I had to ask him several times by what method and he finally laughed and said by pouring vodka over them! I'm sure it was a joke but he wouldn't tell me how they did the work.
Both Viking Landers were put in an oven and cooked for more than 48 hours at 100 Celsius.
I think Mars 1 went into solar orbit and I had thought Zond 2 had as well...was Zond 2 the one that crash on Mars instead of going into orbit then?
While looking for info on this I did find: Cleaning up after Martian exploration it is about McKay's biologically reversible exploration of Mars.
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re: The USSR sent several landers to Mars that were pretty much unsterilized...
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- Nozomi
- Could they use the gravity of Phobos in a sling-shot manuever? (n/t)
- That's amazing accuracy
- Why is Nozomi's $86 million dollar pricetag being conveniently hidden by the sponsorship seeking U.S. space media? (n/t)
- It's 200 million According To Spacedaily and It Appears To Be 100% Wasted
- Stop Spamming This Board
- You would be much happier doing people's income tax for a living.
- re: Hidden? How? You know it? Rich, if they fail to recover from this...$86 million dollars thrown away is worthless...they needed more testing... (n/t)
- Sterilization procedures
- Galileo was sent into Jupiter because Europa has no atmosphere to vaporize a spacecraft before it hits. (n/t)
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- re: The USSR sent several landers to Mars that were pretty much unsterilized... (n/t)
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