• Mbourgon everywhere@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Odds are we already have: Mars, Venus both have had landers, and given that the protections from bringing bacteria are similar or worse than this lander, the only reason bacteria would not have survived is due to heating of the landers in atmosphere. IANARocketScientist.

    Fortunately, we found this out now, before we drop a red hot lander through the ocean surface of one of the moons of (I can’t remember) which they suspect could have life