Publications by authors named "Moogega Cooper"

The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is equipped with a Sample Caching System (SCS) designed to collect and cache martian core and regolith samples for potential return to Earth. To ensure the integrity of these samples, the mission requirements for each encapsulated sample for return is less than one Earth-sourced viable organism (VO) and more than a 99.9% probability of being free of any Earth-sourced VO.

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The Mars 2020 Flight System comprises a Cruise Stage; Aeroshell; Entry, Descent, and Landing system; Perseverance rover; and the Ingenuity helicopter. The Perseverance rover was successfully delivered to Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021. Among its science objectives, Perseverance is meant to search for rocks that are capable of preserving chemical traces of ancient life, if it existed, and to core and cache rock and regolith samples.

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The Mars 2020 mission delivered the Perseverance rover to the surface of Mars using a supersonic parachute manufactured at Airborne Systems, California. The Mars 2020 spacecraft, including the flight parachute, was subject to Planetary Protection spore bioburden compliance. Many previous missions with similar parachutes applied manufacturing specifications for calculating bioburden.

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A bacterial spore assay and a molecular DNA microarray method were compared for their ability to assess relative cleanliness in the context of bacterial abundance and diversity on spacecraft surfaces. Colony counts derived from the NASA standard spore assay were extremely low for spacecraft surfaces. However, the PhyloChip generation 3 (G3) DNA microarray resolved the genetic signatures of a highly diverse suite of microorganisms in the very same sample set.

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Oxidative stress leads to membrane lipid peroxidation, which yields products causing variable degrees of detrimental oxidative modifications in cells. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are the key regulators in this process and induce lipid peroxidation in Escherichia coli. Application of nonthermal (cold) plasma is increasingly used for inactivation of surface contaminants.

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