The worst that could happen in our lifetimes, I would say, is be a total waste of money and resources since no other reachable bodies have atmospheres suitable for Earth-based life. Beyond our lifetimes, and possibly beyond humanity’s existence, that life may be able to survive somewhere but any kind of evolution likely takes millions of years and long-term survivability may not let it see that day
Odds are we already have: Mars, Venus both have had landers, and given that the protections from bringing bacteria are similar or worse than this lander, the only reason bacteria would not have survived is due to heating of the landers in atmosphere. IANARocketScientist.
Fortunately, we found this out now, before we drop a red hot lander through the ocean surface of one of the moons of (I can’t remember) which they suspect could have life
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