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    Icebreaker Life is a Mars lander mission concept proposed to NASA's Discovery Program. The mission involves a stationary lander that would be a near copy...
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    A nuclear-powered icebreaker is an icebreaker with an onboard nuclear power plant that produces power for the vessel's propulsion system. Although more...
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    An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and...
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    Richard C.; et al. (April 5, 2013). "The Icebreaker Life Mission to Mars: A Search for Biomolecular Evidence for Life". Astrobiology. 13 (4): 334–353. Bibcode:2013AsBio...
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  • Dark forest hypothesis (category Extraterrestrial life)
    number of planets, some of which likely hold conditions hospitable for life. Life typically expands until it fills all available niches. These contradictory...
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    Polar-class icebreakers USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10), USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) are heavy icebreakers operated by the United States Coast Guard (USCG)....
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    Lenin (Russian: Ленин) is a Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker, the first nuclear-powered icebreaker in the world. Launched in 1957, it is both the world's...
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    А́рктика, IPA: [ˈarktʲɪkə]; literally: Arctic) is a retired nuclear-powered icebreaker of the Soviet (now Russian) Arktika class. In service from 1975 to 2008...
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    may have stripped the exoplanet's atmosphere and hindered the prospect of life. Very little is known of Kepler-1649c's climate. It receives fully 75% of...
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  • Denis; Pollard, Wayne H. (2013). "The Icebreaker Life Mission to Mars: A Search for Biomolecular Evidence for Life". Astrobiology. 13 (4): 334–353. Bibcode:2013AsBio...
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    allows sampling of diverse regions and geological contexts. Icebreaker Life Icebreaker Life is a lander mission that was proposed for NASA's Discovery...
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    nuclear-powered icebreakers as the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the world. As of January 2024[update], three Project 22220 icebreakers (Arktika,...
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  • This is a list of icebreakers and other special icebreaking vessels (except cargo ships and tankers) capable of operating independently in ice-covered...
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    Colorado, Boulder. Icebreaker Life, a mission concept led by the Ames Research Center for a lander to search for direct signs of life on Mars via biomarker...
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  • Berserker hypothesis (category Extraterrestrial life)
    scenario, is the idea that humans have not yet detected intelligent alien life in the universe because it has been systematically destroyed by a series...
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    Mars netlanders Beagle 3 – 2009 British lander mission meant to search for life, past or present.[clarification needed] Mars Telecommunications Orbiter –...
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    The Wind-class icebreakers were a line of diesel electric-powered icebreakers in service with the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, Royal...
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  • space conditions. SOLID would be one of the payloads of the proposed Icebreaker Life to Mars, or a lander to Europa. Parro, Víctor; de Diego-Castilla, Graciela;...
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  • Recovery Helicopters Kazachok Proposed Biological Oxidant and Life Detection DePhine Icebreaker Life Mars Aerial and Ground Global Intelligent Explorer Mars...
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    Finnish icebreaker. Built in 2016 by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, she is the most powerful icebreaker ever to fly the Finnish flag and the first icebreaker in...
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  • CCGS John G. Diefenbaker is the name for a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker that had been expected to join the fleet by 2017 but has been significantly...
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  • Zoo hypothesis (category Extraterrestrial life)
    assumed behavior and existence of technologically advanced extraterrestrial life and the reasons they refrain from contacting Earth. It is one of many theoretical...
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  • Environment (PADME) Icebreaker Life would use the Phoenix/InSight platform but would carry a payload to search for past extraterrestrial life on Mars. Asteroid...
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    in Antarctica. McKay is the Principal Investigator of the proposed Icebreaker Life astrobiology mission to Mars. In 2015 he received the Nevada Medal...
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  • Firstborn hypothesis (category Extraterrestrial life)
    that no extraterrestrial intelligent life has been discovered because humanity is the first form of intelligent life in the universe. There is no reliable...
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    literally: Moscow) was a Soviet polar icebreaker and the lead ship of a series of five diesel-electric icebreakers named after major Soviet cities. She...
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    The Samuel Risley-class icebreakers are a class of two icebreakers and buoy tenders constructed for and operated by the Canadian Coast Guard. The two ships...
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  • Polar Security Cutter program (category Icebreakers of the United States Coast Guard)
    Coast Guard's aging fleet of icebreakers, currently consisting of the heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star and the medium icebreaker USCGC Healy, with three new...
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    Chinese icebreaking research ship in service. A second Chinese polar icebreaker named MV Xue Long 2, slightly smaller but more capable, entered service...
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    Rare Earth hypothesis (category Origin of life)
    astronomy and astrobiology, the Rare Earth hypothesis argues that the origin of life and the evolution of biological complexity such as sexually reproducing,...
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