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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.

Mars Express completes 20,000 orbits around the Red Planet

Mars Express, the European Space Agency's (ESA) first planetary mission, is a true marathon runner among spacecraft.

Oct 30, 2019

Mars 2020 stands on its own six wheels

This time-lapse video, taken on Oct. 8, 2019, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, captures the first time NASA's Mars 2020 rover has carried its full weight on its legs and wheels.

Oct 28, 2019

Martian landslides not conclusive evidence of ice

Detailed three-dimensional images of an extensive landslide on Mars, which spans an area more than 55 kilometres wide, have been analysed to understand how the unusually large and long ridges and furrows formed about 400 million years ago.

Oct 25, 2019

New selfie shows Curiosity, the Mars chemist

A new selfie taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is breathtaking, but it's especially meaningful for the mission's team: stitched together from…

Oct 25, 2019

Maxar delivers robotic arm for NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover

Maxar Technologies has delivered the robotic Sample Handling Assembly (SHA) for NASA's Mars 2020 rover.

Oct 24, 2019

Naming a NASA Mars rover can change your life

Don't miss the out-of-this-world opportunity to name NASA's next Mars rover: U.S.

Oct 23, 2019

Mars 2020 Rover unwrapped and ready for more testing

In this time-lapse video, taken on Oct. 4, 2019, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, bunny-suited engineers remove the inner…

Oct 22, 2019

Mars once had salt lakes similar to Earth

Mars once had salt lakes that are similar to those on Earth and has gone through wet and dry periods, according to an international team of scientists that includes a Texas A and M University College of Geosciences researcher.

Oct 19, 2019

Mars InSight’s ‘Mole’ is moving again

NASA's InSight spacecraft has used its robotic arm to help its heat probe, known as "the mole," dig nearly 2 centimeters (3/4 of an inch) over the past week.

Oct 18, 2019

The Mars Mole and the challenging ground of the Red Planet

NASA's InSight mission landed on Mars in November 2018. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is involved in the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) experiment.

Oct 18, 2019

MRO HiRISE camera views InSight and Curiosity on Mars

The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently sent home eye-catching views of the agency's InSight lander and its Curiosity rover.

Oct 17, 2019

ExoMars parachute progress

Positive steps towards solving the problems discovered with the ExoMars mission parachutes have been taken in the last month to keep on track for the July-August 2020 launch window.

Oct 16, 2019

River relic spied by Mars Express

Mars may seem to be an alien world, but many of its features look eerily familiar - such as this ancient, dried-up river system that stretches out for nearly 700 kilometres across the surface, making it one of the longest valley networks on the planet.

Oct 11, 2019

Global analysis of submarine canyons may shed light on Martian landscapes

Submarine canyons are a final frontier on planet Earth. There are thousands of these breathtaking geological features hidden within the depths of the ocean -…

Oct 10, 2019

NASA’s Curiosity Rover finds an ancient oasis on Mars

If you could travel back in time 3.5 billion years, what would Mars look like? The picture is evolving among scientists working with NASA's Curiosity rover.

Oct 8, 2019

Curiosity findings suggest Mars once featured dozens of shallow briny ponds

Data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover suggests Mars once hosted dozens of shallow briny ponds that periodically overflowed and then dried.

Oct 7, 2019