論文

査読有り 国際誌
2019年11月

Assessment of the probability of microbial contamination for sample return from Martian moons I: Departure of microbes from Martian surface

Life Sciences in Space Research
  • Kazuhisa Fujita
  • ,
  • Kosuke Kurosawa
  • ,
  • Hidenori Genda
  • ,
  • Ryuki Hyodo
  • ,
  • Shingo Matsuyama
  • ,
  • Akihiko Yamagishi
  • ,
  • Takashi Mikouchi
  • ,
  • Takafumi Niihara

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開始ページ
73
終了ページ
84
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1016/j.lssr.2019.07.009
出版者・発行元
Elsevier BV

Potential microbial contamination of Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, which can be brought about by transportation of Mars ejecta produced by meteoroid impacts on the Martian surface, has been comprehensively assessed in a statistical approach, based on the most probable history of recent major gigantic meteoroid collisions on the Martian surface. This article is the first part of our study to assess potential microbial density in Mars ejecta departing from the Martian atmosphere, as a source of the second part (Kurosawa et al., 2019) where statistical analysis of microbial contamination probability is conducted. Potential microbial density on the Martian surface as the source of microorganisms was estimated by analogy to the terrestrial areas having the similar arid and cold environments, from which a probabilistic function was deduced as the asymptotic limit. Microbial survival rate during hypervelocity meteoroid collisions was estimated by numerical analysis of impact phenomena with and without taking internal friction and plastic deformation of the colliding meteoroid and the target ground into consideration. Trajectory calculations of departing ejecta through the Martian atmosphere were conducted with taking account of aerodynamic deceleration and heating by the aid of computational fluid dynamic analysis. It is found that Mars ejecta smaller than 0.03 m in diameter hardly reach the Phobos orbit due to aerodynamic deceleration, or mostly sterilized due to significant aerodynamic heating even though they can reach the Phobos orbit and beyond. Finally, the baseline dataset of microbial density in Mars ejecta departing for Martian moons has been presented for the second part of our study.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lssr.2019.07.009
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31791608
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1016/j.lssr.2019.07.009
  • ISSN : 2214-5524
  • PubMed ID : 31791608

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