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Mars Daily Editorial Team

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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.

UAE again delays Mars probe launch over weather

Dubai (AFP) July 15, 2020 - The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday it would delay the launch of its Hope Mars probe for a second time, again due to bad weather.

Jul 15, 2020

NASA’s Perseverance rover will scour Mars for signs of life

Washington (AFP) July 14, 2020 - NASA's most advanced Mars rover, Perseverance, launches from Earth on July 30, on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life on what was once a river delta three-and-a-half billion years ago.

Jul 14, 2020

UAE plans to launch Mars probe Friday after weather delay

Dubai (AFP) July 14, 2020 - The United Arab Emirates said it plans to launch its Hope Mars probe on Friday local time from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center after a two-day delay due to poor weather there.

Jul 14, 2020

NASA updates planetary protection policies for lunar and mars human missions

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 - NASA has released two NASA Interim Directives (NIDs) updating the agency's requirements for robotic and human missions traveling to the Earth's Moon, and human missions traveling to Mars. The first,

Jul 13, 2020

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Attached to Atlas V Rocket

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 - NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has been attached to the top of the rocket that will send it toward the Red Planet this summer. Encased in the nose cone that will protect it during launch, the rover

Jul 13, 2020

A trio of Mars missions in the starting blocks

Paris (AFP) July 13, 2020 - We have lift-off, we have lift-off!

Jul 13, 2020

First comprehensive documentation of glacial retreat in the alps

Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 - A research team from Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) conducted the first study of area and elevation changes for all Alpine glaciers over a period of 14 years. This involved

Jul 13, 2020

The quest to find signs of ancient life on Mars

Paris (AFP) July 11, 2020 - Mars may now be considered a barren, icy desert but did Earth's nearest neighbour once harbour life?

Jul 11, 2020

Six decades of missions to Mars

Paris (AFP) July 10, 2020 - The six-decade space race to explore Mars has led to some 40 missions, at least half of which have been successful, and still the Red Planet inspires new adventures.

Jul 10, 2020

Eyes on the stars: UAE’s Mars probe a first for the Arab world

Dubai (AFP) July 10, 2020 - The oil-rich United Arab Emirates has built a nuclear power programme and sent a man to space, and now plans to join another elite club by sending a probe to Mars.

Jul 10, 2020

Johnson-Built Device to Help Mars Perseverance Rover Search for Signs of Life

Houston TX (SPX) Jul 09, 2020 - Later this summer, NASA is launching the Mars Perseverance Rover to the Red Planet with the Mars 2020 Mission. The rover is loaded with equipment to search for signs that there once was life on Mars

Jul 9, 2020

NASA’s InSight Flexes Its Arm While Its ‘Mole’ Hits Pause

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2020 - NASA's InSight lander has been using its robotic arm to help the heat probe known as the mole burrow into Mars. The mission is providing the first look at the Red Planet's deep interior to reveal

Jul 9, 2020

Summer road trip for Curiosity rover has begun

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 07, 2020 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has started a road trip that will continue through the summer across roughly a mile (1.6 kilometers) of terrain. By trip's end, the rover will be able to ascend to the ne

Jul 7, 2020

Flight over Korolev Crater on Mars

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 - This video shows a simulated flight over Korolev Crater. The 82-kilometre-wide impact crater is filled with water ice all year round. It is located in the northern lowlands of Mars, near the permane

Jul 3, 2020

‘Marsquakes’ measured by InSight show effects of sun and wind

Fukuoka, Japan (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 - Compared with our own planet Earth, Mars might seem like a dead planet, but even there, the wind blows and the ground moves. On Earth, we study the ambient seismic noise rippling mainly due to oce

Jul 2, 2020

China eyes July 20-25 launch for Mars rover

Beijing (AFP) July 1, 2020 - China's first Mars rover should launch later this month, authorities said Wednesday, as the country races to catch up with the US dominance of space.

Jul 1, 2020