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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.

Mars upside down

Which way is up in space? Planets are usually shown with the north pole at the top and the south pole at the bottom.

Dec 18, 2017

Planting oxygen ensures a breath of fresh air

When resources are limited, you have to work with what you have - especially in the harsh environment of space.

Dec 17, 2017

Opportunity Comes to a Fork in the Road

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

Dec 17, 2017

Designing future human space exploration on Hawaii’s lava fields

On the lava fields of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, a team of NASA researchers and partners have been busy doing science in a most unusual way.

Dec 13, 2017

Space program should focus on Mars, says editor of New Space

The U.S. space exploration program should continue to focus on robotic sample recovery and human missions to Mars, says Scott Hubbard, Editor-in-Chief of New Space.

Dec 11, 2017

Mars Rover Team’s Tilted Winter Strategy Works

NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, has just passed the shortest-daylight weeks of the long Martian year with its solar panels in encouragingly clean…

Dec 7, 2017

NASA’s oldest Mars rover survives another harsh winter

Opportunity, NASA's senior Mars rover, has lasted through another harsh winter on the Red Planet.

Dec 7, 2017

Brown: Clay on Mars May Have Formed in Primordial Steam Bath

Planetary scientists from Brown University have proposed a new scenario for the formation of ancient clay minerals on Mars that, if shown to be true, could rewrite the early history of the red planet.

Dec 6, 2017

EU exempts fuel for ExoMars mission from Russian sanctions

The ExoMars 2020 mission is the first joint program between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos space corporation.

Dec 4, 2017

Winter wanderings put Opportunity at 28 Miles on the odometer

Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of the Noachian-aged Endeavour Crater.

Dec 4, 2017

Scientists developed a new sensor for future missions to the Moon and Mars

A team of scientists from the Faculty of Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University and their colleagues developed a compact spectral polarimeter for carrying outmineralogical investigations on the surface of astronomical bodies.

Nov 30, 2017

NASA builds its next Mars rover mission

In just a few years, NASA's next Mars rover mission will be flying to the Red Planet.

Nov 29, 2017

Opportunity Greets Winter Solstice

Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of Perseverance Valley on the west rim of the Noachian-aged Endeavour crater.

Nov 29, 2017

Earthworms can reproduce in Mars-like soil

A pair of newborn earthworms in a Dutch lab suggests earthworms can reproduce in Martian soil.

Nov 27, 2017

Previous evidence of water on Mars now identified as grainflows

Dark features previously proposed as evidence for significant liquid water flowing on Mars have now been identified as granular flows, where sand and dust move rather than liquid water, according to a new article published in Nature Geoscience by the U.S.

Nov 22, 2017

Gadgets for Mars

A mini-rover, tools once used on the Moon and lasers for 3D mapping are in the backpack of the explorers of tomorrow.

Nov 22, 2017