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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 explorer duo on course: ESA

European-Russian spacecraft were on course for Mars Monday after crucial deep-space manoeuvres in preparation for a daring mission to find evidence of life on the Red Planet.

Oct 17, 2016

European lander starts 3-day descent to Mars surface: ESA

A European lander started a three-day, million-kilometre (621,000-mile) descent to Mars on Sunday, quitting its mothership to test technology for a daring mission to scout the Red Planet for signs of life.

Oct 16, 2016

Europe’s Mars orbiter not sending status data: ESA

Ground controllers reported a break Sunday in status data from a European-Russian Mars orbiter after it released a tiny lander on a three-day trek to the Red Planet's surface.

Oct 16, 2016

Buried glaciers on Mars

This jumble of eroded blocks lies along the distinctive boundary between the Red Planet's southern highlands and the northern lowlands, with remnants of ancient glaciers flowing around them.

Oct 14, 2016

Modeling floods that formed canyons on Earth and Mars

Geomorphologists who study Earth's surface features and the processes that formed them have long been interested in how floods, in particular catastrophic…

Oct 14, 2016

DREAMS of Mars: Europe’s ExoMars Mission Arrives in the Middle of Dust Season

The joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 mission is knocking on Martian door to answer important astrobiological questions.

Oct 14, 2016

Europe heads for Mars in search of life

Thirteen years after its first, failed attempt to place a rover on Mars, Europe reaches a crucial stage Sunday in a fresh quest to scour the Red Planet for signs of life, this time with Russia.

Oct 14, 2016

How this Martian moon became the ‘Death Star’

Mars' largest moon, Phobos, has captured public imagination and been shrouded in mystery for decades.

Oct 14, 2016

How Mars’ moon Phobos came to look like the Death Star

Mars' largest moon, Phobos, is well known for its resemblance to the Death Star, the mobile space station and planet-destroying weapon from Star Wars.

Oct 12, 2016

US relies on industry help to make ‘giant leap’ to Mars

US President Barack Obama said Tuesday the nation is relying on private industry to find ways to make the "giant leap" to Mars, with human missions on the horizon by the 2030s.

Oct 11, 2016

NASA’s Opportunity Rover to Explore Mars Gully

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover will drive down a gully carved long ago by a fluid that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the 12-year-old mission.

Oct 10, 2016

Visitors to Mars could develop dementia from cosmic ray exposure

When scientists at the University of California, Irvine exposed rodents to doses of high-energy charged particles, the test subjects developed cognitive impairments and dementia -- bad news for Mars-bound astronauts.

Oct 10, 2016

Opportunity at First Science Spot of its 10th Extended Mission

Opportunity is located at the terrain feature called 'Spirit Mount' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, the first science waypoint of the 10th extended mission.

Oct 10, 2016

Schiaparelli readied for Mars landing

This week, the commands that will govern the Schiaparelli lander's descent and touchdown on Mars were uploaded to ESA's ExoMars spacecraft, enroute to the Red Planet.

Oct 10, 2016

Versatile Chemistry for the Red Planet

When you need tools or parts for something you're working on around the house, you head to the nearest hardware store.

Oct 7, 2016

Study predicts next global dust storm on Mars

Global dust storms on Mars could soon become more predictable - which would be a boon for future astronauts there - if the next one follows a pattern suggested by those in the past.

Oct 6, 2016