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Mars Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Mars Daily Editorial Team produces Mars Daily's coverage of Mars exploration and science. We report on rovers and orbiters, sample-return and human-Mars planning, and the geology, atmosphere and astrobiology of the Red Planet. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Mars Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Northrop Grumman Provides Navigation System for NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Mission

Woodland Hills CA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 - Northrop Grumman Corporation will once again be the provider of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to support an expedition to Mars when NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Perseverance Mars Rover laun

Jul 27, 2020

After intense testing, Mars helicopter Ingenuity ready to fly

Washington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2020 - After years of design tweaks and dozens of flight tests, engineers are confident the Ingenuity helicopter is ready to make history with the first flight by a powered aircraft on another planet.

Jul 27, 2020

NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will search for traces of past microbial life with the Perseverance rover

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 - With Perseverance, its most complex Mars rover to date, NASA is opening a new chapter in the search for traces of ancient life on Mars. The launch of the new rover is scheduled to take place on 30 J

Jul 27, 2020

Meet Marshall’s Caleb Fassett, NASA Scientist Who Discovered Next Mars Rover Landing Site

Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 24, 2020 - Imagine fulfilling your life's ambition to explore a previously uncharted dried lakebed and the prehistoric river deltas that once emptied into it, carrying clay and other rich alluvial debris - and

Jul 24, 2020

China Mars mission faces many obstacles

Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 - A Mars landing mission must overcome a wide variety of difficulties and obstacles before it can fly through the Martian atmosphere and land on the planet's surface, experts said. The mission m

Jul 24, 2020

China launches Mars probe in space race with US

Wenchang, China (AFP) July 23, 2020 - China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space.

Jul 23, 2020

ESA tunes up Mars rover for challenges ahead

Paris (ESA) Jul 23, 2020 - As Mars exploration prepares for a rebirth, a European rover tunes up its gear for the challenges ahead. Tomorrow, 23 July, ESA and dozens of industrial partners will assess the readiness of t

Jul 23, 2020

Perseverance microphones fulfill long campaign to hear sounds from Mars

Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 - If you could stand on the surface of Mars, what would you hear? While 8 missions have returned stunning views from the surface of the Red Planet, none have returned any sound. That's about to

Jul 23, 2020

Human exploration of Mars is on the horizon

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 - During an event with the Space Foundation, I was excited to be part of a discussion on how our upcoming Mars 2020 Perseverance launch and the Artemis program are critical to opening the door to smar

Jul 21, 2020

Emirates launches first Mars probe with help from UC Berkeley

Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 - At 2:58 p.m. PDT [21:58 UTC] on Sunday, July 19, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched an interplanetary probe - the first by any country in the Arab world - thanks, in part, to scien

Jul 21, 2020

Emirati ‘Hope’ probe heads for Mars

Dubai (AFP) July 20, 2020 - The first Arab space mission to Mars blasted off from Japan on Monday on a mission to unravel the secrets of weather on the Red Planet.

Jul 20, 2020

First Arab space mission to Mars launches from Japan

Tokyo (AFP) July 20, 2020 - The first Arab space mission to Mars, an unmanned probe dubbed Hope, blasted off from Japan on Monday, in a bid to reveal more about the atmosphere of the Red Planet.

Jul 20, 2020

UAE celebrates launch of first Arab interplanetary mission

Dubai (AFP) July 19, 2020 - The United Arab Emirates celebrated in the early hours of Monday morning the launch of its Hope probe to Mars, the first interplanetary mission by an Arab nation.

Jul 19, 2020

UAE’s historic Mars launch now planned for Sunday evening

Washington DC (UPI) Jul 17, 2020 - The United Arab Emirates' historic science mission to Mars now is scheduled for launch from Japan on Sunday.

Jul 17, 2020

Emirates Mars Mission to launch with ASU instrument

Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 16, 2020 - The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, is expected to lift off in July (exact launch date depends on weather conditions) on an H-IIA rocket fro

Jul 16, 2020

Emirates Mars Mission delayed a second time by weather

Washington DC (UPI) Jul 15, 2020 - Weather at the launch site in Japan has delayed Thursday's historic launch of a United Arab Emirates space mission to Mars. It was the second such delay in a week.

Jul 15, 2020