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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.

Mars ‘Actually the Only Planet’ Humans Can Go to Escape Earth, Professor Claims

In recent years, humanity's most brilliant minds have been working to send the first human to the Red Planet.

May 23, 2019

Massive Martian ice discovery opens a window into red planet’s history

Newly discovered layers of ice buried a mile beneath Mars' north pole are the remnants of ancient polar ice sheets and could be one of the largest water…

May 23, 2019

NASA Closer to Discovering What Lies Beneath the Surface of Airless Planetary Bodies

NASA is a step closer to eventually discovering what lies up to 32 feet or 10 meters beneath the surfaces of Mars, the Moon or any airless body in the solar system - a region roughly the length of a three-story building.

May 22, 2019

NASA Invites Public to Submit Names to Fly Aboard Next Mars Rover

Although it will be years before the first humans set foot on Mars, NASA is giving the public an opportunity to send their names - stenciled on chips - to the…

May 22, 2019

Mars 2020 Is Coming Together

An engineer inspects the completed spacecraft that will carry NASA's next Mars rover to the Red Planet, prior to a test in the Space Simulator Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

May 21, 2019

Exploring life on Mars in the Gobi desert

"Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids," as an Elton John hit goes.

May 21, 2019

Is NASA looking at the wrong rocks for clues to Martian life?

In 2020, NASA and European-Russian missions will look for evidence of past life on Mars.

May 21, 2019

Fly over Mount Sharp on Mars

Ever wanted to visit Mars? A new animated video shows what it would be like to soar over Mount Sharp, which NASA's Curiosity rover has been climbing since…

May 21, 2019

After the Moon, people on Mars by 2033…or 2060

On December 11, 2017, US President Donald Trump signed a directive ordering NASA to prepare to return astronauts to the Moon "followed by human missions…

May 18, 2019

NASA’s MRO Completes 60,000 Trips Around Mars

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter hit a dizzying milestone this morning: It completed 60,000 loops around the Red Planet at 10:39 a.m.

May 16, 2019

How the Sun pumps out water from Mars into space

Russian and German physicists have offered an explanation for the new data obtained by Martian satellites, capturing the "escape" of hydrogen atoms from the upper Martian atmosphere into outer space.

May 15, 2019

New water cycle on Mars discovered

Approximately every two Earth years, when it is summer in the southern hemisphere of Mars, a window opens: only there and only in this season can water vapor efficiently rise from the lower into the upper atmosphere.

May 10, 2019

Why this Martian full moon looks like candy

For the first time, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has caught the Martian moon Phobos during a full moon phase.

May 10, 2019

For InSight, dust cleanings will yield new science

The same winds that blanket Mars with dust can also blow that dust away. Catastrophic dust storms have the potential to end a mission, as with NASA's Opportunity rover.

May 7, 2019

Lockheed Martin completes testing milestone for Mars 2020 heat shield

Protecting against the extremes of space travel is critical to the success of any mission.

May 5, 2019

Martian Dust Could Help Explain Water Loss, Plus Other Learnings From Global Storm

Dust is not just a household nuisance; it's a planetary one, particularly on Mars.

May 3, 2019