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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.

Digging deeper into Mars

Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Jul 27, 2016 - Water is the key to life on Earth. Scientists continue to unravel the mystery of life on Mars by investigating evidence of water in the planet's soil. Previous observations of soil observed along cr

Jul 27, 2016

NASA Mars Rover Can Choose Laser Targets on Its Own

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 22, 2016 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is now selecting rock targets for its laser spectrometer - the first time autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of this kind on any robotic planetary

Jul 22, 2016

NASA’s Viking Data Lives on, Inspires 40 Years Later

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2016 - Forty years ago, NASA's Viking mission made history when it became the first mission to successfully land a fully operational spacecraft on Mars. This mission gave us our first real look at the Mart

Jul 21, 2016

Opportunity Rover wrapping up work within Marathon Valley

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2016 - Opportunity is exploring 'Marathon Valley' on the rim of Endeavour crater, investigating outcrops for evidence of clay minerals. The rover is nearing the completion of its exploration within M

Jul 21, 2016

NASA Selects Five Mars Orbiter Concept Studies

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 19, 2016 - NASA has selected five U.S. aerospace companies to conduct concept studies for a potential future Mars orbiter mission. Such a mission would continue key capabilities including telecommunications an

Jul 19, 2016

Next Mars Rover Progresses Toward 2020 Launch

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2016 - After an extensive review process and passing a major development milestone, NASA is ready to proceed with final design and construction of its next Mars rover, currently targeted to launch in summe

Jul 17, 2016

Frosty Cold Nights Year-Round on Mars May Stir Dust

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2016 - Some dusty parts of Mars get as cold at night year-round as the planet's poles do in winter, even regions near the equator in summer, according to new NASA findings based on Mars Reconnaissance Orbi

Jul 12, 2016

Mars Canyons Study Adds Clues about Possible Water

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2016 - Puzzles persist about possible water at seasonally dark streaks on Martian slopes, according to a new study of thousands of such features in the Red Planet's largest canyon system. The study publish

Jul 12, 2016

Opportunity finishing science investigations at the center of Marathon Valley

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 07, 2016 - Opportunity is exploring 'Marathon Valley' on the rim of Endeavour crater, investigating outcrops for evidence of clay minerals. The rover is nearing the completion of its exploration within M

Jul 7, 2016

Curiosity Mars Rover Enters Precautionary Safe Mode

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 07, 2016 - The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is taking steps to return the rover to full activity following a precautionary stand-down over the Fourth of July weekend. Curiosity is now commu

Jul 7, 2016

Moons of Mars probably formed by giant impact

Paris, France (SPX) Jul 07, 2016 - The origin of the two Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, remained a mystery. Due to their small size and irregular shape, they strongly resembled asteroids, but no one understood how Mars could have

Jul 7, 2016

Scientists’ Innovation Began With ‘Wanting to Understand Why’

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 07, 2016 - NASA's Journey to Mars will require groundbreaking technologies and solutions to many complex problems. For a pair of NASA scientists at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an idea to help make tha

Jul 7, 2016

Mars Rover’s Sand-Dune Studies Yield Surprise

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 03, 2016 - Some of the wind-sculpted sand ripples on Mars are a type not seen on Earth, and their relationship to the thin Martian atmosphere today provides new clues about the atmosphere's history. The

Jul 3, 2016

ChemCam findings hint at oxygen-rich past on Mars

Los Alamos NM (SPX) Jul 01, 2016 - The discovery of manganese oxides in Martian rocks might tell us that the Red Planet was once more Earth-like than previously believed. A new paper in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that NASA'

Jul 1, 2016

Unusual form of sand dune discovered on Mars

Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jul 1, 2016 - Both Earth and Mars feature large sand dunes and small sand ripples. Recently, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity discovered and studied an expanse of medium-sized sand waves unlike any sand formations found on Earth.

Jul 1, 2016

NASA Weighs Use of Rover to Image Potential Mars Water Sites

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 28, 2016 - Ever since it was announced that there may be evidence of liquid water on present-day Mars, NASA scientists have wondered how best to further investigate these long, seasonally changing dark streaks

Jun 28, 2016