Notes and materials from MARS Sample Handling Workshops 2000-2001 #Curiosity

I had the pleasure of serving as a panel member for some NASA sponsored “Mars Sample Handling Workshops” in 2000-2001 and thereabouts.  I have all these materials still from those meetings and in light of the Mars Curiosity Rover landing and other recent activities I thought it would be good to share them.  Most/all are public domain materials but not all are easy to find so I thought I would post them here.  Note – I have done no clean up of scans – will do so at some point. Enjoy.

• MSHP Workshop 1 handout
• MSHP Workshop 1 letter
• MSHP Workshop 1 Notes
• MSHP Workshop 1 report
• MSHP Workshop 1 report slides
• MSHP Workshop 1 self scan
• MSHP Workshop 2 agenda
• MSHP Workshop 2 agenda2
• MSHP Workshop 2 handout
• MSHP Workshop 2 letter
• MSHP Workshop 2 letter2
• MSHP Workshop 2 Notes
• MSHP Workshop 2.invite
• MSHP Workshop 3
• MSHP Workshop 4
• Report-Biological Containment of Mars
• Report-Comprehensive Protocol for Lunas Sampling Lab
• Report-Effect of sterilization
• Report-Mars Sample Return
• Report-Size limits very small microbes
• MSHARP
• MSHP Fax 2-28-2000
• MSHP Letter 3-9-2000
• MSHP RummelLetter 8-26-02

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis View all posts by Jonathan Eisen