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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.

Swiss Camera Leaves for Mars

A camera designed and built at the University of Bern will leave Bern on Monday, 9 November, at 6:00 in the morning for Cannes in France where it will be…

Nov 9, 2015

Amnesia Event Slows Down Opportunity Robotic Arm Work

Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.

Nov 7, 2015

Martian desiccation

Mars has been all over the news, from the blockbuster finding of seasonal water on the Red Planet to the wildly successful film, The Martian.

Nov 6, 2015

Shining a light on the aurora of Mars

ESA's Mars Express has shed new light on the Red Planet's rare ultraviolet aurora by combining for the first time remote observations with in situ measurements of electrons hitting the atmosphere.

Nov 6, 2015

Delving into the atmosphere of Mars

This issue of Science features four studies highlighting results from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, designed to study Mars' upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere.

Nov 6, 2015

NASA mission reveals speed of solar wind stripping Martian atmosphere

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the…

Nov 5, 2015

Signs of Acid Fog Found on Mars

While Mars doesn't have much in the way of Earth-like weather, it does evidently share one kind of weird meteorology: acid fog.

Nov 2, 2015

Rewrite of Onboard Memory Planned for NASA Mars Orbiter

Tables stored in flash memory aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) tell locations of Earth and the sun for the past 10 years, but not their locations next year.

Oct 30, 2015

NASA Chief: We’re Closer to Sending Humans on Mars Than Ever Before

President Barack Obama remains committed to a 2030 manned mission to Mars, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Charles Bolden, Jr.

Oct 30, 2015

Martian skywatchers provide insight on atmosphere, protect orbiting hardware

Though the Martian terrain echoes some features of our own planet, the atmosphere is quite different: thin, cold, dusty and often stormy.

Oct 28, 2015

Landing site recommended for ExoMars 2018

Oxia Planum has been recommended as the primary candidate for the landing site of the ExoMars 2018 mission.

Oct 22, 2015

You too can learn to farm on Mars

Scientists at Washington State University and the University of Idaho are helping students figure out how to farm on Mars, much like astronaut Mark Watney…

Oct 21, 2015

The Martian Astrobiologist

Mars has been a focus of astrobiology and exobiology research since the early days of NASA.

Oct 21, 2015

Opportunity parked for solar panels to charge up for winter

Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater completing a valley floor survey for clay minerals before moving to the winter location on the south side of the valley.

Oct 20, 2015

To save on weight, a detour to the moon is the best route to Mars

Launching humans to Mars may not require a full tank of gas: A new MIT study suggests that a Martian mission may lighten its launch load considerably by refueling on the moon.

Oct 15, 2015

The Journey to Mars: Bridging the Technology Gap

As the new movie "The Martian" demonstrates, there's an amazing list of technologies required to safely send human beings to the Red Planet and bring them home again.

Oct 15, 2015