The Icebreaker mission proposes to land at the site where the Phoenix mission discovered an environment that is habitable for life in recent times [1], and search for biomarkers of life. The subsurface ice is expected at shallow depth (<10 cm below the surface)[2]. By drilling up to 1 m depth into the icy material, Icebreaker plans to sample ice that was warm during past high obliquity periods. Samples are analyzed for organics and biomolecules.
A Sample Sifter for the Proposed Icebreaker Mars Mission
Lunar & Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) ; 2015 ; The Woodlands, TX, United States
2015-03-16
Conference paper
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English