NASA Has Phoenix Looking For Life On Mars After Ice Discovery

Boston (dbTechno) - NASA confirmed last week that the Phoenix Mars lander managed to confirm that there is ice in the red planet’s soil. Now that the discovery has been made, the hope is that the Phoenix can now look for any signs of life on Mars.

Last week, NASA scientists were opening up bottles of champagne to celebrate the finding of ice on Mars.

Now that the celebration has begun to pass though, it is time to get back to work, as their next goal to try and analyze soil samples, to see if they can find any signs of life.

The Phoenix Mars lander is going to have extra time to do this as well, as NASA has extended the mission by five weeks, meaning the Phoenix will have until September 30th to look around the planet.

The September 30th date will likely the deadline, as it is not believed that the craft will be able to survive the winter on Mars.

The remainder of the mission for the Phoenix Mars lander will be used to analyze samples on the red planet.

The hope is that they will end up turning up some sort of evidence of primitive life,s uch as bacteria, organic molecules, etc.

We will have to wait and see, as it should be an exciting few weeks to come.