She is a freelance journalist covering science, technology and the environment. Her stories have appeared in Smithsonian, Scientific American, Wired, Audubon, National Geographic, Science and elsewhere. -from laurapoppick.com
“Despite general good intentions and hard work to keep spacecraft free of contaminants, Conley says the biggest threat humans pose to other planets is what we don’t know—or what we think we know, but don’t.”