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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.

Curiosity reaches sand dunes

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has begun an up-close investigation of dark sand dunes up to two stories tall.

Dec 12, 2015

Opportunity on west rim of Endeavour Crater within Marathon Valley

The rover is positioned on steep, north-facing slopes for improved solar array energy production.

Dec 12, 2015

NASA’s Curiosity rover reaches Martian sand dunes

NASA's Curiosity rover is continuing its trek up Mount Sharp. Recently, the Mars rover reached a series of sand dunes covering a lower portion of the layered Martian mountain inside Gale Crater.

Dec 11, 2015

Mars Mission Team Addressing Vacuum Leak on Key Science Instrument

A key science instrument that will be carried aboard NASA's Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight)…

Dec 7, 2015

Letter to Mars? Royal Mail works it out for British boy, 5

Britain's Royal Mail has turned to NASA for help after a five-year-old boy wrote in asking how much it would cost to post a letter to Mars.

Dec 4, 2015

European payload selected for ExoMars 2018 surface platform

Two European instruments and four European contributions on two Russian instruments have been selected for the Russian-led science platform that will land on Mars as part of the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars 2018 mission.

Dec 1, 2015

ExoMars has historical, practical significance for Russia, Europe

The ExoMars program to explore the environment on Mars has historical and practical significance for Russia and Europe, deputy-head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Sergei Savelev, said Thursday.

Nov 27, 2015

ExoMars prepares to leave Europe for launch site

The two ExoMars spacecraft of the 2016 mission are being prepared for shipping to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ahead of their launch in March.

Nov 26, 2015

Tracking down the ‘missing’ carbon from the Martian atmosphere

Mars is blanketed by a thin, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere--one that is far too thin to prevent large amounts of water on the surface of the planet from subliming or evaporating.

Nov 26, 2015

Mars to lose its largest moon, Phobos, but gain a ring

Mars' largest moon, Phobos, is slowly falling toward the planet, but rather than smash into the surface, it likely will be shredded and the pieces strewn about the planet in a ring like the rings encircling Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.

Nov 25, 2015

Study: Mars to become a ringed planet following death of its moon

A new study, published in Nature Geoscience, suggests Mars could become ringed if its smaller moon Phobos falls apart, as scientists believe it will.

Nov 23, 2015

A witness to a wet early Mars

Vast volumes of water once flooded through this deep chasm on Mars that connects the 'Grand Canyon' of the Solar System - Valles Marineris - to the planet's northern lowlands.

Nov 20, 2015

NASA completes heat shield testing for future Mars exploration vehicles

As NASA missions to Mars progress with science and complex human exploration missions, spacecraft will require larger heat shields to protect against the…

Nov 19, 2015

Curiosity Mars Rover Heads Toward Active Dunes

On its way to higher layers of the mountain where it is investigating how Mars' environment changed billions of years ago, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover will take advantage of a chance to study some modern Martian activity at mobile sand dunes.

Nov 17, 2015

Upgrade Helps NASA Study Mineral Veins on Mars

Scientists now have a better understanding about a site with the most chemically diverse mineral veins NASA's Curiosity rover has examined on Mars, thanks in part to a valuable new resource scientists used in analyzing data from the rover.

Nov 15, 2015

Dust devils detected by seismometer could guide Mars mission

Buried in the shallow soft mud of a dry California lake bed, a seismometer was able to detect the tiny tilts of the ground as it was pulled up by passing dust devils.

Nov 10, 2015