The Ethics of Exploration: Planetary Astronomy

  • Article
  • 3000 words
  • Level: all audiences

Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J. of the Vatican Observatory writes that while we might not expect many ethical questions to arise in astronomy, since it is a science based on remote observations of distant objects, such questions do crop up nevertheless. He addresses some of these in this 2008 paper.

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