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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.

NASA Lays the Groundwork for Homesteading in Space

When moving from one city to another, people rarely bring their house with them - they just rent, buy or build a new one.

Oct 6, 2015

Terraforming the Red Planet: Nuclear Blasts Could Warm Mars for Humans?

Elon Musk, the head of aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, who had earlier come up with the idea of dropping two thermonuclear bombs on Mars, explained that this step could make the colonization of the Red Planet a reality.

Oct 6, 2015

Curiosity’s Drill Hole and Location are Picture Perfect

On Tuesday, Sept. 29, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drilled its eighth hole on Mars, and its fifth since reaching Mount Sharp one year ago.

Oct 5, 2015

Students Advance Mars Airplane Concept

When you're designing an airplane that could one day be the first to fly on Mars, the answer cannot be found in the back of the book.

Oct 5, 2015

Rock samples from Western US teach how to hunt for life on Mars

The search for life beyond Earth is one of the grandest endeavors in the history of humankind - a quest that could transform our understanding of our universe both scientifically and spiritually.

Oct 2, 2015

Hitchhiking to Mars

Could some of the hardiest bacteria on Earth hitchhike on a Journey to Mars and survive after landing in a new world?

Oct 2, 2015

NASA’s Big Mars Story

Every time NASA ballyhoos a press conference to announce an exciting discovery about Mars, the public bets heavily that the news will either be about water (What, again?

Oct 1, 2015

Search for Mars life stymied by contamination threat

A multi-billion-dollar robot dispatched to Mars to search for life must steer clear of promising "hot spots" for fear of spreading microbes from Earth, NASA project scientists said Thursday.

Oct 1, 2015

NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars

New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.

Sep 29, 2015

Opportunity Mars Rover Preparing for Active Winter

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is conducting a "walkabout" survey of "Marathon Valley," where the rover's operators…

Sep 28, 2015

Rover’s Current Location Makes Communications a Challenge

Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater conducting a walk-about survey for clay minerals.

Sep 28, 2015

Celebrating one year of Mars Orbiter Mission in Orbit; Release of Mars Atlas

Mars Orbiter spacecraft marks one year of its life around the red planet today. After successfully completing one year of the mission life around Mars, now a large data set has been acquired by all five payloads of MOM.

Sep 25, 2015

NASA’s Space Launch System is the Rocket for the Ride to Mars

NASA is going to Mars, and here on Earth, the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is the first stop for building the world&#x27…

Sep 23, 2015

NASA’s MAVEN Celebrates One Year at Mars

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft has been in orbit around Mars for one Earth year.

Sep 23, 2015

India’s Mars mission to last many years: top space official

India's Mars mission will last for many years as it has so far not experienced any failures, a top space official has reportedly said.

Sep 23, 2015

The Fact and Fiction of Martian Dust Storms

For years, science fiction writers from Edgar Rice Burroughs to C. S. Lewis have imagined what it would be like for humans to walk on Mars.

Sep 23, 2015