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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.

First test success for largest Mars mission parachute

Paris (ESA) Mar 29, 2018 - 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 pl

Mar 29, 2018

Marsquakes could shake up planetary science

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 29, 2018 - Starting next year, scientists will get their first look deep below the surface of Mars. That's when NASA will send the first robotic lander dedicated to exploring the planet's subsurface. InS

Mar 29, 2018

Opportunity making extensive study of rock target Aguas Calientes

Washington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2018 - Opportunity is continuing the exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned about half way down the approximately 656 feet (200-meter) valle

Mar 28, 2018

Curiosity rover gets ready for its next adventure

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 28, 2018 - 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 scientists are eager to explore; it could shed a

Mar 28, 2018

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

New Rochelle, NY (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 - In Making Life Multi-Planetary Elon Musk, CEO and Lead Designer at SpaceX, presents the updated design for the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), the powerful rocket intended to propel a newly modified spac

Mar 27, 2018

Mars Curiosity Celebrates Sol 2,000

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2018 - NASA's Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet. An image mosaic taken by the rover in January offers a preview of what comes next.

Mar 23, 2018

Instruments for next NASA mission to Mars being tested under Germany’s Black Forest

Washington (UPI) Mar 23, 2018 - Scientists in Germany are working hard to ensure NASA's next Mars mission, the Insight mission, gets the most accurate data possible.

Mar 23, 2018

Sol 2000: Roving for 2000 Martian Days

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2018 - 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. We've observed a huge variet

Mar 23, 2018

Martian oceans formed earlier but weren’t as deep as previously thought, study finds

Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 - New research suggests oceans first formed on Mars earlier and were significantly shallower than previously predicted. The new findings also highlight the important role volcanic activity played in shaping the formation and evolution of Mars' oceans.

Mar 20, 2018

Opportunity Mars Rover brushes a new rock target

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 20, 2018 - Opportunity is continuing the exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned about halfway down the approximately 656 feet (200 meter) valley

Mar 20, 2018

Mars’ oceans formed early, possibly aided by massive volcanic eruptions

Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 - A new scenario seeking to explain how Mars' putative oceans came and went over the last 4 billion years implies that the oceans formed several hundred million years earlier and were not as deep as o

Mar 20, 2018

Asteroids and comets shower Mars with organics

Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 - Asteroids and comets appear to be a much more important suppliers of organic molecules on Mars than expected. Until now, astronomers assumed that the organics on Mars mainly came from dust particles

Mar 14, 2018

Next NASA Mars Rover Reaches Key Manufacturing Milestone

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 14, 2018 - NASA's Mars 2020 mission has begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase of its development, on track for a July 2020 launch to Mars. The first planned ATLO activities will inv

Mar 14, 2018

Opportunity is Halfway Down the Valley

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2018 - Opportunity is continuing the exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned about halfway down the approximately 656 feet (200 meter) valley

Mar 13, 2018

360 Video: Tour a Mars Robot Test Lab

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 12, 2018 - NASA's InSight lander looks a bit like an oversized crane game: when it lands on Mars this November, its robotic arm will be used to grasp and move objects on another planet for the first time.

Mar 12, 2018

Travis AFB delivers NASA InSight Spacecraft

Travis AFB CA (AFNS) Mar 12, 2018 - Airmen from the 21st Airlift Squadron and the 860th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, California, loaded and transported the NASA InSight Spacecraft Feb. 28, 2018, from Lockhee

Mar 12, 2018