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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.

Team Continues to Listen for Opportunity

Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2018 - No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018). The dust storm on Mars continues its decay with atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site decreasing. It is expect

Sep 3, 2018

NASA Launching Mars Lander Parachute Test from Wallops Sep 7

Wallops Island, VA (SPX) Sep 03, 2018 - NASA will conduct the third in a series of parachute tests for possible future missions to Mars during the flight of a Terrier-Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket in the morning on Sep. 7, 201

Sep 3, 2018

NASA’s InSight has a thermometer for Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 31, 2018 - Ambitious climbers, forget Mt. Everest. Dream about Mars. The Red Planet has some of the tallest mountains in the solar system. They include Olympus Mons, a volcano nearly three times the height of

Aug 31, 2018

Martian skies clearing over Opportunity Rover

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 31, 2018 - A planet-encircling dust storm on Mars, which was first detected May 30 and halted operations for the Opportunity rover, continues to abate. With clearing skies over Opportunity's resting spot

Aug 31, 2018

Opportunity rover expected to call home as Martian dust storm clears

Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2018 - The weeks-long Martian dust storm is waning, and Opportunity rover can finally see clearly. NASA scientists think the rover will soon receive enough sunlight to recharge its batteries and resume its science mission.

Aug 31, 2018

Mars dust storm clears, raising hope for stalled NASA rover

Tampa (AFP) Aug 31, 2018 - One of the biggest Martian dust storms on record is clearing up after nearly three months, raising hope that NASA's stranded, solar-powered robotic vehicle, Opportunity, will soon come back to life.

Aug 31, 2018

No word from Opportunity as skies begin to clear

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 30, 2018 - No signal from Opportunity has been heard. The dust storm on Mars continues to decay. There has been no new storm activity within ~1,864 miles (3,000 kilometers) of the rover site. The atmosph

Aug 30, 2018

NASA’s InSight passes halfway to Mars, instruments check in

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2018 - NASA's InSight spacecraft, en route to a Nov. 26 landing on Mars, passed the halfway mark on Aug. 6. All of its instruments have been tested and are working well. As of Aug. 20, the spacecraft

Aug 21, 2018

The Science Team Continues to Listen for Opportunity as Storm Diminishes

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 17, 2018 - The planet-encircling dust storm on Mars continues to decay, although in fits and starts. Atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site was estimated down near 2.1, but then popped up to 2.5.

Aug 17, 2018

Six Things About Opportunity’S Recovery Efforts

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 17, 2018 - NASA's Opportunity rover has been silent since June 10, when a planet-encircling dust storm cut off solar power for the nearly-15-year-old rover. Now that scientists think the global dust storm is

Aug 17, 2018

Planet-Encircling Dust Storm of Mars shows signs of slowing

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2018 - The planet-encircling dust storm on Mars continues to show indications of decay. Dust-lifting sites have decreased and surface features are starting to emerge. There are indications that the a

Aug 15, 2018

Aerojet Rocketdyne delivers power generator for Mars 2020 Rover

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2018 - Aerojet Rocketdyne, in collaboration with Teledyne, recently delivered the electrical power generator for NASA's Mars 2020 rover to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Idaho National Laboratory (I

Aug 8, 2018

Still no change in Opportunity’s status

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 08, 2018 - There is no news since the last status update. As reported last week, the planet-encircling dust storm on Mars is showing indications of peaking and perhaps decaying. Dust lifting sites have d

Aug 8, 2018

Sorry Elon Musk, but it’s now clear that colonising Mars is unlikely

London, UK (The Conversation) Aug 06, 2018 - Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonising Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an infrastructure to transport millions of people there. This was seen as highly a

Aug 6, 2018

Russia Plans to Send Capsule With Microorganisms to Mars

Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 06, 2018 - Russian scientists plan to send a capsule containing microorganisms to Mars' natural satellite Phobos and then get it back to Earth in order to study the possible mutations during the space flight,

Aug 6, 2018

Mars Dust Storm May Have Peaked

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 03, 2018 - The planet-encircling dust storm on Mars is showing indications of peaking and perhaps decaying. Dust lifting sites have decreased in extent and some surface features are starting to become vi

Aug 3, 2018