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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.

Opportunity Nears ‘Perseverance Valley’

Opportunity is continuing the drive south to 'Perseverance Valley' on the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Apr 27, 2017

SwRI-led team discovers lull in Mars’ giant impact history

From the earliest days of our solar system's history, collisions between astronomical objects have shaped the planets and changed the course of their evolution.

Apr 26, 2017

Danish Martian Experts Get Their Hands on a Piece of ‘Black Beauty’

Humans have yet to set foot on Mars, but meteorites have been, by far, the most frequent visitors from outer space on Earth.

Apr 24, 2017

New Look at 2004’s Martian Hole-in-One Site

A new observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures the landing platform that the rover Opportunity left behind in Eagle Crater more than 13 years and 27 miles (or 44 kilometers) ago.

Apr 24, 2017

Researchers Produce Detailed Map of Potential Mars Rover Landing Site

Brown University researchers have published the most detailed geological history to date for a region of Mars known as Northeast Syrtis Major, a spot high on…

Apr 21, 2017

Mars Rover Opportunity Leaves ‘Tribulation’

NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is departing "Cape Tribulation," a crater-rim segment it has explored since late 2014, southbound for its…

Apr 20, 2017

Mars spacecraft’s first missions face delays, NASA says

NASA will probably delay the first two missions of its Orion deep-space capsule, being developed to send astronauts beyond earth's orbit and eventually to Mars, the US space agency said on Thursday.

Apr 14, 2017

France, Japan aim to land probe on Mars moon

France and Japan want to recover pieces of a Martian Moon and bring them back to Earth, the head of France's National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) said Thursday.

Apr 13, 2017

Opportunity Mars rover on the way to Perseverance Valley

Opportunity is heading south to "Perseverance Valley" on the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Apr 12, 2017

NASA’s MAVEN reveals Mars has metal in its atmosphere

Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere, according to new results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft.

Apr 12, 2017

Chile desert combed for clues to life on Mars

Chile's Atacama desert may seem to contain little besides red-grey rocks and sand -- but scientists are busy searching here for clues to life in a place it much resembles: Mars.

Apr 6, 2017

Russia critcal to ExoMars Project says Italian Space Agency Head

Russia is a fundamental partner in the joint project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos space corporation ExoMars, Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Roberto Battiston told Sputnik.

Apr 6, 2017

Prolific Mars Orbiter Completes 50,000 Orbits

The most data-productive spacecraft yet at Mars swept past its 50,000th orbit this week, continuing to compile the most sharp-eyed global coverage ever accomplished by a camera at the Red Planet.

Mar 31, 2017

New MAVEN findings reveal how Mars’ atmosphere was lost to space

Solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years…

Mar 31, 2017

Potential Mars Airplane Resumes Flight

Flight tests have resumed on subscale aircraft that could one day observe the Martian atmosphere and a variant that will improve collection of Earth's weather data.

Mar 31, 2017

Final two ExoMars landing sites chosen

Two ancient sites on Mars that hosted an abundance of water in the planet's early history have been recommended as the final candidates for the landing site of the 2020 ExoMars rover and surface science platform: Oxia Planum and Mawrth Vallis.

Mar 29, 2017