EURO-CARES is a project to
roadmap a European Sample Curation Facility (ESCF)
for sample return mission material from Mars, Moon,
and asteroids. It was funded by the EC H2020
COMPET program and runs from January 2015 to
December 2017. While there have already been projects
to investigate the curation of extraterrestrial sample
return material in Europe, EURO-CARES is
unique in being neither country-specific or missionspecific.
While there have already been sample returns
from asteroids and the Moon which we can learn from,
a sample return mission to Mars requires new curation
protocols, especially since such samples will have a
planetary protection constraints
