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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.

NASA listens out for Opportunity everyday

The dust storm on Mars is continuing as a Planet-encircling Dust Event (PEDE) with no indication of receding at this time.

Jul 9, 2018

UK space sector set to benefit from new European Space Agency contract

A new rover set to visit Mars and collect the first ever samples from the planet to be brought back safely to Earth, will be designed in Stevenage by Airbus…

Jul 9, 2018

Mars to Pamper Gazers With Stunning Sight Amid NASA’s Dust Storm Concerns

On July 27 and several days afterwards, the Red Planet will become especially visible due to a so-called "opposition," with Earth coming equally close both to Mars and the sun, international media reported.

Jul 6, 2018

Top 10 Teams Selected in Virtual Model Stage of NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge

NASA's 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is challenging teams of citizen inventors to push the state of the art of additive construction to design and build sustainable shelters for humans to live on Mars.

Jul 3, 2018

The meteorite ‘Black Beauty’ expands the window for when life might have existed on Mars

The Mars meteorite Black Beauty has literally brought crisp news to Earth. Crust formation is an important step in the development of terrestrial planets, and…

Jul 2, 2018

Mars valleys traced back to precipitation

The surface of Mars bears imprints of structures that resemble fluvial steam networks on Earth.

Jul 2, 2018

Precipitation explains Mars’ fluvial patterns, astronomers claim

A variety of geological patterns on Mars suggests the Red Planet once hosted water.

Jun 28, 2018

Opportunity sleeps during a planet-encircling dust storm

The dust storm on Mars is now a Planet-encircling Dust Event (PEDE).

Jun 25, 2018

Martian Dust Storm Grows Global; Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze

A storm of tiny dust particles has engulfed much of Mars over the last two weeks and prompted NASA's Opportunity rover to suspend science operations.

Jun 21, 2018

Explosive volcanoes spawned mysterious Martian rock formation

Explosive volcanic eruptions that shot jets of hot ash, rock and gas skyward are the likely source of a mysterious Martian rock formation, a new study finds.

Jun 19, 2018

Unique microbe could thrive on Mars, help future manned missions

New research suggests certain cyanobacteria could thrive on Mars. The microbes could even be used to provide future space colonies with oxygen.

Jun 18, 2018

NASA encounters the perfect storm for science on Mars

One of the thickest dust storms ever observed on Mars has been spreading for the past week and a half.

Jun 14, 2018

NASA spacecraft studying massive Martian dust storm

A record dust storm has been swirling on Mars for nearly two weeks. While the weather has forced the Opportunity rover to bunker down and suspend all scientific activities, several other spacecraft are taking the opportunity to study the storm.

Jun 14, 2018

Regional dust storm is affecting Opportunity Mars rover

Opportunity is halfway down in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.

Jun 13, 2018

Martian dust storm silences NASA’s rover, Opportunity

A massive dust storm raging across Mars has overcome NASA's aging Opportunity rover, putting the unmanned, solar-powered vehicle into sleep mode and raising concerns about its survival, the US space agency said Wednesday.

Jun 13, 2018

Opportunity hunkers down during dust storm

NASA engineers attempted to contact the Opportunity rover today but did not hear back from the nearly 15-year old rover.

Jun 13, 2018