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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.

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

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

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

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

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

Rover Rounds Martian Dune to Get to the Other Side

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 06, 2016 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, partway through the first up-close study ever conducted of extraterrestrial sand dunes, is providing dramatic views of a dune's steep face, where cascading sand has scul

Jan 6, 2016

Boulders on a Martian Landslide

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 29, 2015 - The striking feature in this image, acquired by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 19, 2014, is a boulder-covered landslide

Dec 29, 2015

NASA suspends March launch of InSight mission to Mars

Pasadena CA (AFP) Dec 23, 2015 - NASA has suspended the March 2016 launch of its InSight mission to Mars because of problems with a key scientific component, the US space agency said Tuesday. The lander was set to delve deep

Dec 23, 2015

Marshall: Advancing the technology for NASA’s Journey to Mars

Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 23, 2015 - From making rocket engines roar to analyzing the first 3-D printed parts created on the space station and developing new technologies, 2015 was a year of discovery and progress as the team at NASA's

Dec 23, 2015

Opportunity positioned on steeper slopes for another Martian winter

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 22, 2015 - Opportunity is inside Marathon Valley on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned on steep slopes for improved solar array energy production. The near-term object is to position t

Dec 22, 2015

Insight shipped to California for March launch to Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 21, 2015 - NASA's next Mars spacecraft has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, for final preparations before a launch scheduled in March 2016 and a landing on Mars six months later. Lockhee

Dec 21, 2015

Martian gullies likely contain ‘no water’: study

Paris (AFP) Dec 21, 2015 - Months after scientists announced the strongest evidence yet of liquid water on Mars, a study Monday said there was none at least in the valleys carved into numerous Red Planet slopes.

Dec 21, 2015

University researchers test prototype spacesuits at Kennedy

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 21, 2015 - The spacesuits astronauts will wear while exploring the surface of Mars will protect the person inside, supply air and water, and be flexible enough that astronauts can dig samples and do the other

Dec 21, 2015

Rocks Rich in Silica Present Puzzles for Mars Rover Team

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 18, 2015 - In detective stories, as the plot thickens, an unexpected clue often delivers more questions than answers. In this case, the scene is a mountain on Mars. The clue: the chemical compound silica. Lots

Dec 18, 2015