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SUMMARY:CMTE ON PLANETARY PROTECTION (Natl Acad)\, ?\, 2026\, virtual
DESCRIPTION:Update\, January 29:  The SSB tells SpacePolicyOnline that this meeting has been postponed until April or May. Details will be provided in due course. \nUpdate\, January 24: The SSB website no longer lists this meeting. If we get additional information\, we’ll post it here. \nOriginal Entry: The Committee on Planetary Protection (CoPP) of the National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine will hold a virtual meeting from February 3-4\, 2026 on “Enabling the Search for Life by Understanding Growth-Limiting Factors for Earth Microorganisms on Mars.” \nMore information is on the event’s website\, which says: \nThe National Academies’ Committee on Planetary Protection (CoPP) is hosting a 2-day virtual meeting on February 3-4\, 2026\, titled\, “Enabling the Search for Life by Understanding Growth-Limiting Factors for Earth Microorganisms on Mars”. The goal of this meeting would be to evaluate/revisit the existing availability of water and temperature limits and explore additional parameters that should be explored further and produce a prioritized list of the contributors to probability of growth. These will be qualitative definitions of parameters with more quantitative work being left to further activities by the CoPP and NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection in support work on planetary protection measures that enable missions to Mars. The key parameters identified during this meeting will be used for modeling probability of growth of terrestrial organisms in connection with human and robotic missions to Mars (e.g.\, habitat zones\, exploration activities\, and special regions). Moving forward\, the topic of probability of growth will be explored more thoroughly\, but for this meeting we are sticking to limits of life and forgoing other related topics like risk management.\nThe meeting will be hosted via Zoom webinar and consist of invited talks and open discussions between the speakers and CoPP with the audience invited to contribute live in writing via Slido. \n 
URL:https://spacepolicyonline.com/events/cmte-on-planetary-protection-natl-acad-feb-3-4-2026-virtual/
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