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Re:Rapid colonization of a space-returned Ryugu sample by te... by muny on Thursday November 28, 2024 @06:50PM (#42269530)
I'm not super familiar, but I think a "Class 10,000" clean room is actually quite on the "dirty" end of the clean room spectrum. Perhaps they figured this had a low likelihood of being the source of domestic microbes?
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Re:Rapid colonization of a space-returned Ryugu sample by te... by madaxe_again on Friday November 29, 2024 @03:15AM (#42271996)
Correct. As per the paper the population of organisms suggests contamination occurred during sample preparation at the Natural History Museum.
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