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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.

Mars Rover Opportunity Reaches 5000 Sols On Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 16, 2018 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity keeps providing surprises about the Red Planet, most recently with observations of possible rock stripes. The ground texture seen in recent images f

Feb 16, 2018

Oppy Takes A Selfie To Mark Sol 5000

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 16, 2018 - The Sun will rise on NASA's solar-powered Mars rover Opportunity for the 5,000th time on Saturday, sending rays of energy to a golf-cart-size robotic field geologist that continues to provide revela

Feb 16, 2018

A Piece of Mars is Going Home

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 14, 2018 - A chunk of Mars will soon be returning home. A piece of a meteorite called Sayh al Uhaymir 008 (SaU008) will be carried on board NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission, now being built at the agency's Jet P

Feb 14, 2018

Danish architect envisions life on Mars

Dubai (XNA) Feb 14, 2018 - Could humans ever live on Mars? Award-winning architect gave a positive answer and even a timescale to this question: in 100 years. Bjarke Ingels, named by Time magazine in 2016 as among the

Feb 14, 2018

Mars Opportunity Rover Energy Levels Improve

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2018 - Opportunity is continuing her exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has moved along the north fork of a local flow channel about half way down the

Feb 13, 2018

Leaky Atmosphere Linked To Lightweight Planet

Paris (ESA) Feb 13, 2018 - The Red Planet's low gravity and lack of magnetic field makes its outermost atmosphere an easy target to be swept away by the solar wind, but new evidence from ESA's Mars Express spacecraft shows th

Feb 13, 2018

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter preparing for years ahead

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 12, 2018 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has begun extra stargazing to help the space agency accomplish advances in Mars exploration over the next decade. The spacecraft already has worked mor

Feb 12, 2018

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter capatures images of splitting slope streaks

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 09, 2018 - This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows streaks forming on slopes when dust cascades downhill. The dark streak is an area of less dust compared to the brighter and reddish sur

Feb 9, 2018

Tiny Crystal Shapes Get Close Look From Mars Rover

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 09, 2018 - Star-shaped and swallowtail-shaped tiny, dark bumps in fine-layered bright bedrock of a Martian ridge are drawing close inspection by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. This set of shapes looks fami

Feb 9, 2018

NASA leverages proven technologies to build agency’s first planetary wind lidar

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 - NASA scientists have found a way to adapt a handful of recently developed technologies to build a new instrument that could give them what they have yet to obtain: never-before-revealed details abou

Feb 9, 2018

HKU scientist makes key discoveries in the search for life on Mars

Hong Kong (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 - The planet Mars has long drawn interest from scientists and non-scientists as a possible place to search for evidence of life beyond Earth because the surface contains numerous familiar features suc

Feb 8, 2018

In Oman desert, European venture sets sights on Mars

Dhofar, Oman (AFP) Feb 8, 2018 - Would-be astronauts in aluminium-coated suits venture out in rovers from a sprawling camp in Oman's barren desert: a simulation by a European venture aiming to one day help humans survive on Mars.

Feb 8, 2018

Studies of Clay Formation Provide Clues to Early Martian Climate

Mountain View, CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 - New research published in Nature Astronomy seeks to understand how surface clay was formed on Mars despite its cold climate. The climate on early Mars has presented an enigma for planetary sci

Feb 6, 2018

Opportunity Celebrates 14 Years of Working on Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 05, 2018 - Opportunity is continuing her exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has moved along the north fork of the local flow channel. Continuing the exten

Feb 5, 2018

Mount Sharp ‘Photobombs’ Mars Curiosity Rover

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 02, 2018 - A new self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge, which it has been investigating for the past several months. Directly behind the rover is the start of a cla

Feb 2, 2018

A vista from Mars rover looks back over journey so far

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2018 - A panoramic image that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took from a mountainside ridge provides a sweeping vista of key sites visited since the rover's 2012 landing, and the towering surroundings.

Jan 31, 2018