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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.

Site of Martian lakes linked to ancient habitable environment

Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 10, 2016 - Groundwater circulation beneath a massive tectonic rift zone located along the flanks of some the solar system's largest volcanic plateaus resulted in the formation more than 3 billion years ago of

Feb 10, 2016

Opportunity climbing steeper slopes to reach science targets

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 05, 2016 - Opportunity is exploring 'Marathon Valley' on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover is climbing up steep slopes to reach high-value science targets up on 'Knudsen Ridge.' Opportunity performe

Feb 5, 2016

4 people to live in an HERA habitat for 30 days at JSC

Houston TX (SPX) Jan 31, 2016 - This 30 day mission will help our researchers learn how isolation and close quarters affect individual and group behavior. This study at our Johnson Space Center prepares us for long duration space

Jan 31, 2016

Sandy Selfie Sent from NASA Mars Rover

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2016 - The latest self-portrait from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the car-size mobile laboratory beside a dark dune where it has been scooping and sieving samples of sand. The new selfie combine

Jan 31, 2016

Getting real – on Mars

Boston MA (SPX) Jan 28, 2016 - NASA wants you to know that it's only a matter of months before you can wake up in a Martian habitat, grab some breakfast, jump into your spacesuit, and head out for a stroll across the Red Planet's

Jan 28, 2016

India to Cooperate With France on Next Mission to Mars

Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 26, 2016 - France will become India's partner in the next Indian mission to Mars, India's Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said Monday. Earlier in the day, French President Francois Hollande and

Jan 26, 2016

Opportunity Reaches 12 Years on Mars!

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31 2016 - Opportunity is exploring 'Marathon Valley' on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover is up on north-facing slopes for improved solar array energy production. The rover is conducting an in-situ

Jan 26, 2016

Mars Rover Opportunity Busy Through Depth of Winter

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 26, 2016 - NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, worked through the lowest-solar-energy days of the mission's seventh Martian winter, while using a diamond-toothed rock grinder and other tools in recent weeks

Jan 26, 2016

Opportunity rock abrasion tool conducts two rock grinds

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2016 - Opportunity is inside 'Marathon Valley,' up on north-facing slopes for improved solar array energy production. The rover is conducting an in-situ (contact) science campaign on the surface targ

Jan 25, 2016

Curiosity gets a good taste of scooped, sieved sand

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2016 - At its current location for inspecting an active sand dune, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is adding some sample-processing moves not previously used on Mars. Sand from the second and third samples the

Jan 25, 2016

Opportunity Abrasion Tool Conducts Two Rock Grinds

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2016 - Opportunity is inside 'Marathon Valley,' up on north-facing slopes for improved solar array energy production. The rover is conducting an in-situ (contact) science campaign on the surface targ

Jan 22, 2016

Rover uses Rock Abrasion Tool to grind rocks

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 19, 2016 - Opportunity is inside 'Marathon Valley' on north-facing slopes for improved solar array energy production. The rover is engaged in an in-situ (contact) science campaign investigating the surface tar

Jan 19, 2016

Thales Alenia Space to supply reaction control subsystem for ExoMars

Bristol UK (SPX) Jan 19, 2016 - Thales Alenia Space-UK are pleased to announce that they have been selected to supply a crucial subsystem, the Reaction Control Subsystem, for the Carrier Module of the ExoMars 2018 mission. T

Jan 19, 2016

Money troubles may delay Europe-Russia Mars mission

Paris (AFP) Jan 15, 2016 - Part of a joint European-Russian mission to search for signs of life on Mars may be delayed due to cash flow problems, the European Space Agency said Friday.

Jan 15, 2016

Opportunity Welcomes Winter Solstice

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 14, 2016 - Opportunity is inside 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned on steep, north-facing slopes for improved solar array energy production. The winter solsti

Jan 14, 2016

A Starburst Spider On Mars

Washington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2016 - Mars' seasonal cap of carbon dioxide ice has eroded many beautiful terrains as it sublimates (goes directly from ice to vapor) every spring. In the region where the High Resolution Imaging Sci

Jan 12, 2016