On a recent trip to Haughton crater on Devon Island in the Canadian arctic, scientists tested a drill that could be used on Mars. The mixture of underground ice, rock and dirt, present year-round in Haughton crater makes the site a good place for testing instruments for Mars. The IceBreaker drill is designed to help astrobiologists search of signs of life beneath the martian surface, and could be used on a follow-up mission to NASA’s Phoenix lander. IceBreaker testing at Haughton was supported in part by the Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development program (ASTID) under the Astrobiology Rotary-Percussive Automated Drill project (PI: Brian Glass).