Posted by tourdemars to Phoenix Lander at October 27, 2005 11:35 PM

Canadian innovation will be the main scout in NASA's next lander mission to Mars. A Canadian-designed weather station will play a lead role in answering questions about the planet's geology and climate. "We are now just learning that those environments, to our great surprise, do support microbes," said Victoria Hipkin, a planetary scientist at the Canadian Space Agency.