Why doesn the lander have instruments designed to detect life?
The Mars polar lander one in a series of Mars Surveyor program missions designed to learn more about Mars’ Climate, Resources and Life. The specific scientific focus of this mission is Mars volatiles and climate. Instruments dedicated to searching for life on Mars were part of the scientific payload of the two Viking landers. Future Mars Surveyor Program missions will focus on bringing Martian rock samples back to Earth, which will be analyzed for evidence of past biologic activity. 12. Will the lander contaminate Mars with life forms from Earth? This is very unlikely. All US space missions are required to meet planetary protection standards, and these standards are particularly stringent for Mars. As a Mars lander with no life detection experiments, the Mars Polar Lander is categorized as a Category IV A mission. This requires that the spacecraft has to be assembled in a class 100,000 clean room, and that contamination control effectiveness must be monitored and demonstrated by period
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