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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.

The claw game on Mars: NASA InSight plays to win

If you've ever played the claw machine at an arcade, you know how hard it can be to maneuver the metal "hand" to pick up a prize.

Oct 19, 2018

Scientists to debate landing site for next Mars rover

Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles later this week to present, discuss and…

Oct 16, 2018

Efforts to communicate with Opportunity continue

The dust storm on Mars has effectively ended with atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site down to around 1.0 to 1.1, values are typical for storm-free conditions this time of year.

Oct 15, 2018

Painting cars for Mars

When John Campanella's friend wanted his beloved Ferrari painted, he knew exactly who to call.

Oct 10, 2018

Novel Technique Quickly Maps Young Ice Deposits and Formations on Mars

A new investigative technique has shown the latitudinal distribution of ice-rich landforms on Mars.

Oct 9, 2018

Curiosity Rover to Temporarily Switch ‘Brains’

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, this week commanded the agency's Curiosity rover to switch to its second computer.

Oct 4, 2018

Curiosity rover operating on backup computer during repairs to main processor

NASA engineers have switched the Curiosity rover's brains, ceding control of the spacecraft to a backup computer.

Oct 4, 2018

Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing

Selecting a landing site for a rover headed to Mars is a lengthy process that normally involves large committees of scientists and engineers.

Oct 1, 2018

Opportunity Remains Silent For Over Three Months

No signal from Opportunity has been heard in over 115 sols, since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018).

Oct 1, 2018

UCF selling experimental Martian dirt – $20 a kilogram, plus shipping

The University of Central Florida is selling Martian dirt, $20 a kilogram plus shipping.

Oct 1, 2018

How a tiny Curiosity motor identified a massive Martian dust storm

There is no shortage of eyeballs, human and robotic, pointed at Mars. Scientists are constantly exploring the Red Planet from telescopes on Earth, plus the six spacecraft circling the planet from its orbit, and two roving its surface.

Sep 27, 2018

Martian moon may have come from impact on home planet

The weird shapes and colors of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos have inspired a long-standing debate about their origins.

Sep 26, 2018

Opportunity emerges in a dusty picture

NASA still hasn't heard from the Opportunity rover, but at least we can see it again.

Sep 26, 2018

Ancient Mars had right conditions for underground life

A new study shows evidence that ancient Mars probably had an ample supply of chemical energy for microbes to thrive underground.

Sep 25, 2018

Martian moon likely forged by ancient impact, study finds

New research suggest Mars' largest moon, Phobos, was formed from Martian debris excised by an ancient impact.

Sep 24, 2018

NASA’s MAVEN Selfie Marks Four Years in Orbit at Mars

Today, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft celebrates four years in orbit studying the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet and how it interacts with the Sun and the solar wind.

Sep 24, 2018