The Importance of a Multidisciplinary Approach in Planetary Science

There wouldn't be any planetary science or astrobiology without an interdisciplinary approach. When we first started sending spacecraft to other planets, there was no such thing as planetary science. And so that really came about of the necessity to a to do the science that became possible because we were starting to send missions to the planets. The ground had been paved by the fact that planetary science was already this multi disciplinary collection o viewpointsad sources of expertise. But then when astro biology became not just a sort of a fringe extension of planetary science, which it was at one point,. It broadened the circle again to include these other disciplines.