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The Astrobiology Field Laboratory (AFL) (also Mars Astrobiology Field Laboratory or MAFL) was a proposed NASA unmanned spacecraft that would have conducted a robotic search for life on Mars .[1] [2] This proposed mission, which was not funded, would have landed a rover on Mars in 2016 and explore a site for habitat . Examples of such sites are an active or extinct hydrothermal deposit, a dry lake or a specific polar site.[3]
Had it been funded, the rover was to be built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , based upon the Mars Science Laboratory rover design, it would have carried astrobiology -oriented instruments, and ideally, a core drill . The original plans called for a launch in 2016,[4] however, budgetary constraints caused funding cuts.

2019 UPDATE: Updated The Rover on Windows 10 to look More Like the One seen on the Picture
here ---> media.springernature.com/origi…

Description

The Astrobiology Field Laboratory (AFL) (also Mars Astrobiology Field Laboratory or MAFL) was a proposed NASA unmanned spacecraft that would have conducted a robotic search for life on Mars .[1] [2] This proposed mission, which was not funded, would have landed a rover on Mars in 2016 and explore a site for habitat . Examples of such sites are an active or extinct hydrothermal deposit, a dry lake or a specific polar site.[3]
Had it been funded, the rover was to be built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , based upon the Mars Science Laboratory rover design, it would have carried astrobiology -oriented instruments, and ideally, a core drill . The original plans called for a launch in 2016,[4] however, budgetary constraints caused funding cuts.

2019 UPDATE: Updated The Rover on Windows 10 to look More Like the One seen on the Picture
here ---> media.springernature.com/origi…