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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.

UAH gets NASA early-stage funding for Marsbees concept

A proposal on Marsbees submitted by Dr. Chang-kwon Kang, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at The University of Alabama in…

Apr 10, 2018

ExoMars poised to start science mission

The ExoMars orbiter will soon begin its search for gases that may be linked to active geological or biological activity on the Red Planet.

Apr 10, 2018

Trace Gas Orbiter reaches stable Mars orbit, ready to start science mission

After a year of aerobraking, the Trace Gas Orbiter has finally reached a stable orbit around Mars and will soon commence with its science mission.

Apr 10, 2018

MIPT physicists design a model of Martian winter

A team of researchers from MIPT and their German and Japanese colleagues have designed a numerical model of the annual water cycle in the Martian atmosphere.

Apr 10, 2018

Bungee Jumping: Russian Scientists Suggest Using Ropes to Ship Cargo From Mars

Sustainable methods of transportation are there for us not merely on Earth, but perhaps also in outer space, with researchers now striving to find more or less "green" options even for cargo deliveries in outer space.

Apr 9, 2018

NASA’s Idea to Send Swarm of Robots to Mars

NASA has announced their intent to fund research which will send a swarm of Robot bees up to Mars to explore the red planet.

Apr 5, 2018

NASA Ready to Study Heart of Mars

NASA is about to go on a journey to study the interior of Mars. The space agency held a news conference at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, detailing the next mission to the Red Planet.

Apr 3, 2018

Opportunity Completes In-Situ Work on ‘Aguas Calientes’

Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.

Apr 3, 2018

Mars Parachute Test Successfully Launched from Wallops

The launch of a Black Brant IX sounding rocket carrying the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment or ASPIRE was successfully conducted at 12:19 p.m.

Apr 3, 2018

First test success for largest Mars mission parachute

The largest parachute ever to fly on a Mars mission has been deployed in the first of a series of tests to prepare for the upcoming ExoMars mission that will deliver a rover and a surface science platform to the Red Planet.

Mar 29, 2018

Marsquakes could shake up planetary science

Starting next year, scientists will get their first look deep below the surface of Mars.

Mar 29, 2018

Curiosity rover gets ready for its next adventure

This mosaic, taken by the Mars Curiosity rover, looks uphill at Mount Sharp. Spanning the center of the image is an area with clay-bearing rocks that…

Mar 28, 2018

Opportunity making extensive study of rock target Aguas Calientes

Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.

Mar 28, 2018

Elon Musk’s vision to colonize Mars updated in New Space

In "Making Life Multi-Planetary" Elon Musk, CEO and Lead Designer at SpaceX, presents the updated design for the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), the…

Mar 27, 2018

Mars Curiosity Celebrates Sol 2,000

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet.

Mar 23, 2018

Sol 2000: Roving for 2000 Martian Days

Today marks a milestone for Curiosity. Our trusty Martian rover has spent 2000 sols exploring Gale Crater helping to unravel the geologic history preserved in the rocks.

Mar 23, 2018