Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Icebreaker Life is a Mars lander mission that is being proposed for NASA’s Discovery Program for the 2018 launch opportunity.If selected and funded the stationary lander would be a near copy of the successful 2008 Phoenix and it would carry an upgraded astrobiology scientific payload including a drill to sample ice-cemented ground in the northern plains to conduct a search for organic molecules and evidence of current or past life on Mars.The science goals for Icebreaker Life focus on the organics biomolecules salts and minerals within the ice-cemented ground.
