Planetary Protection

NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection Has A New Logo

By Keith Cowing

Status Report

NASA via LinkedIn

December 5, 2024

Filed under back contamination, Biosafety, biosignature, forward contamination, microbiology, planetary protection, Sample Return

NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection — NASA

Editor’s note: According to a LinkedIn post by James Benardini, Planetary Protection Officer at NASA:

“NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection just released it’s new logo today! Excited to share this with you all. This has been a passion for Erin Lalime and I over the past month or so working with the NASA Safety Center in getting a logo that represents our office.

This logo embodies exploration of the solar system, emphasis the entire reason for PP with safety and enabling science, represents a focus on Earth’s biosphere and leans forward to embracing and supplementing the traditional spore assay with metagenomics methods along with capturing both a robotic and crew mission portfolio.

Hope when we cross paths next we will have stickers and patches to share!!”

Astrobiology

Keith Cowing

Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) 🖖🏻

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