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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.

A little help from friends

Paris (ESA) Jun 17, 2016 - ESA's first Mars orbiter will provide an important helping hand when the second arrives at the Red Planet in October. Following lift off in March, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and the Schiapa

Jun 17, 2016

NASA signs space deal with United Arab Emirates

Washington DC (Sputnik) Jun 17, 2016 - The United States has announced it will be forging a deal with its long term allies the United Arab Emirates, specifically concerning aeronautics research and space exploration. This collabora

Jun 17, 2016

Rover Opportunity Wrapping up Study of Martian Valley

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 17, 2016 - Marathon Valley, slicing through a large crater's rim on Mars, has provided fruitful research targets for NASA's Opportunity rover since July 2015, but the rover may soon move on. Opportunity rece

Jun 17, 2016

Delayed ExoMars mission gets 77-mln-euro boost

Paris (AFP) June 16, 2016 - The second part of a delayed joint European-Russian mission to probe Mars for traces of life has received a crucial 77 million euros ($86 million) cash injection, the European Space Agency said Thursday.

Jun 16, 2016

NASA Mars Rover Descends Plateau, Turns Toward Mountain

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 15, 2016 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has analyzed its 12th drilled sample of Mars. This sample came from mudstone bedrock, which the rover resumed climbing in late May after six months studying other feature

Jun 15, 2016

Musk explains his ‘cargo route’ to Mars

Washington (AFP) June 12, 2016 - SpaceX chief Elon Musk shed light Saturday on his new plan to send an unmanned spaceship to Mars as early as 2018, as part of his quest to some day colonize the Red Planet.

Jun 12, 2016

Remarkably diverse flora in Utah, USA, trains scientists for future missions on Mars

London, UK (SPX) Jun 10, 2016 - Future Martian explorers might not need to leave the Earth to prepare themselves for life on the Red Planet. The Mars Society have built an analogue research site in Utah, USA, which simulates the c

Jun 10, 2016

NASA Mars Orbiters Reveal Seasonal Dust Storm Pattern

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 10, 2016 - After decades of research to discern seasonal patterns in Martian dust storms from images showing the dust, but the clearest pattern appears to be captured by measuring the temperature of the Red Pl

Jun 10, 2016

Study of Opportunity Wheel Scuff Continues

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2016 - Opportunity is exploring 'Marathon Valley' on the rim of Endeavour crater, investigating outcrops for evidence of clay minerals. The rover is continuing to examine a previously trenched (scuffed) su

Jun 7, 2016

Mars ‘colonists’ to undergo five days of tests

The Hague (AFP) June 6, 2016 - The 100 candidates on the shortlist to establish a human colony on the planet Mars are to undergo tests as part of a new phase of the selection process, the project organisers said Monday.

Jun 6, 2016

SpaceX could send people to Mars by 2024, Elon Musk says

Los Angeles (UPI) Jun 3, 2016 - SpaceX Chief Elon Musk is predicting his company will be able to launch humans to Mars by 2024.

Jun 3, 2016

Red and Golden Planets at Opposition

Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 01, 2016 - Earth is about to lap Mars and then Saturn in their race around the sun. The two planets have gathered together in the constellation Scorpius where they are shining brightly in the evening sky with

Jun 1, 2016

Opportunity investigating soil exposed by rover wheel

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 31, 2016 - Opportunity is exploring 'Marathon Valley' on the rim of Endeavour crater, inspecting specific outcrops for evidence of clay minerals. Previously, the rover used the left-front wheel to scuff

May 31, 2016

Mars Webcam goes pro

Paris (ESA) May 30, 2016 - A modest 'webcam' on Mars Express has proven useful for outreach, education and citizen-science. Now ESA have decided to adopt it as a professional science instrument. Mars Express was launched in 2

May 30, 2016

SwRI scientists discover evidence of ice age at Martian north pole

San Antonio TX (SPX) May 30, 2016 - Using radar data collected by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a Southwest Research Institute-led team found evidence of an ice age recorded in the polar deposits of Mars. Ice ages on Mars are dr

May 30, 2016

Mars makes closest approach to Earth in 11 years

Washington (UPI) May 30, 2016 - Space-gazers will get a treat starting Monday night.

May 30, 2016