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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.

Nine finalists chosen in Mars 2020 rover naming contest

Members of the public have an opportunity to vote for their favorite name for NASA's next Mars rover.

Jan 22, 2020

Could future homes on the Moon and Mars be made of fungi?

Science fiction often imagines our future on Mars and other planets as run by machines, with metallic cities and flying cars rising above dunes of red sand.

Jan 20, 2020

Rippling ice and storms at Mars’ north pole

ESA's Mars Express has captured beautiful images of the icy cap sitting at Mars' north pole, complete with bright swathes of ice, dark troughs and depressions, and signs of strong winds and stormy activity.

Jan 14, 2020

NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover closer to getting its name

NASA's Mars 2020 rover is one step closer to having its own name after 155 students across the U.S.

Jan 14, 2020

Impressive cloud formations over Mars’ northern polar ice cap

These images show clouds of dust over our planetary neighbour's northern polar ice cap.

Jan 14, 2020

LZH’s MOMA laser ready for the flight to Mars

One last time on Earth it has been turned on in France in December 2019. The next time the MOMA laser developed by the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V.

Jan 13, 2020

Mars loses water to space during warm, stormy seasons

All kinds of geological formations on Mars, alluvial fans, dry lake beds and eroded river valleys, suggest the Red Planet once hosted an abundance of water.

Jan 10, 2020

Martian water could disappear faster than expected

The small red planet is losing water more quickly than what theory as well as past observations would suggest.

Jan 9, 2020

NASA’s trip to Mars begins in California ‘clean room’

NASA's Mars 2020 rover will head off for the Red Planet next year. But like Voyager, Galileo and Cassini before it, the mission's epic journey began in a "clean room" in California.

Dec 28, 2019

Mars 2020 rover to seek ancient life, prepare human missions

The Mars 2020 rover, which sets off for the Red Planet next year, will not only search for traces of ancient life, but pave the way for future human missions, NASA scientists said Friday as they unveiled the vehicle.

Dec 28, 2019

Promising progress for ExoMars parachutes

A series of ground-based tests designed to check the extraction of the ExoMars 2020 mission's parachutes from their bags have started successfully with promising results to keep the mission on track for next year's launch.

Dec 24, 2019

Mars 2020 Rover Completes Its First Drive

NASA's next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its activities on Dec.

Dec 19, 2019

Developing a technique to study past Martian climate

Joanna Clark has been interested in geology ever since she was a child. Today, the University of Houston doctoral student is turning that curiosity into a…

Dec 18, 2019

Mars Express tracks the phases of Phobos

ESA's Mars Express has captured detailed views of the small, scarred and irregularly shaped moon Phobos from different angles during a unique flyby.

Dec 16, 2019

Lockheed Martin delivers Mars 2020 rover aeroshell to launch site

The capsule-shaped aeroshell that will protect NASA's Mars 2020 rover was delivered to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Dec 16, 2019

Scientists map a planet’s global wind patterns for the first time, and it’s not Earth

A new paper in Science documents for the first time the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of a planet, 120 to 300 kilometers above the surface.

Dec 13, 2019