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Loading contentThe Committee on Space Research, an international scientific body that coordinates space research across nations and maintains the planetary-protection policy that keeps missions from contaminating other worlds and Earth from returned samples.
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Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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