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planetary protection test
A test performed to assess that the potential for contamination of: 1) Earth by returned spacecraft hardware, or 2) spacecraft destinations by spacecraft hardware is within acceptable limits. It typically consists of bacterial spore counts from swabs taken from hardware surfaces.
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