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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.

ExoMars 2016 targets March launch window

A problem recently discovered in two sensors in the propulsion system of the entry, descent and landing demonstrator module has prompted the recommendation to…

Sep 22, 2015

Opportunity Continues Search for Clay Minerals On Mars

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

Sep 22, 2015

Expect Martian Colonies to Build Themselves First

Space explorers will travel to prefabricated colonies on the Moon, Mars and elsewhere, says the Self-deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments project (SHEE).

Sep 18, 2015

Record-breaking astronauts return to Earth

Expedition 44 to the International Space Station has been successfully completed after three astronauts landed in Kazakhstan.

Sep 17, 2015

Team Continues to Operate Rover in RAM Mode

Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater exploring for clay minerals.

Sep 13, 2015

Supervising two rovers from space

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen is proving to be an expert space driver after commanding two rovers from space this week.

Sep 13, 2015

Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes

Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes, then were cemented into rock.

Sep 13, 2015

To Watch and to Strike: Russia Developing Multi role Heavy Drone

Russia is developing a heavy drone that could be used both as reconnaissance and combat aircraft, one of its designers said in an interview Wednesday.

Sep 11, 2015

Sweeping over the south pole of Mars

An unusual observation by Mars Express shows a sweeping view over the planet's south polar ice cap and across its ancient, cratered highlands.

Sep 11, 2015

Opportunity Driving West To Reach New Rock Target

Opportunity is within 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater exploring for phyllosilicate clay minerals.

Sep 10, 2015

ASU instruments help scientists probe ancient Mars atmosphere

Mars was not always the arid Red Planet that we know today. Billions of years ago it was a world with watery environments - but how and why did it change?

Sep 3, 2015

What Happened to Early Mars’ Atmosphere

Scientists may be closer to solving the mystery of how Mars changed from a world with surface water billions of years ago to the arid Red Planet of today.

Sep 3, 2015

Opportunity brushes a rock and conducts in-situ studies

Opportunity is in 'Marathon Valley' on the west rim of Endeavour Crater exploring for phyllosilicate clay minerals.

Sep 1, 2015

One year and counting: Mars isolation experiment begins

Six people shut themselves inside a dome for a year in Hawaii on Friday, in the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars.

Aug 29, 2015

HI-SEAS launches year-long isolation experiment to mimic life on Mars

Six scientists have begun a yearlong isolation experiment from within a small dome to mimic life on Mars.

Aug 29, 2015

Destination Red Planet: Will Billionaires Fund a Private Mars Colony

With over 1,800 billionaires in the world, a sizeable investment from at least one of them could provide a major push to colonize the Red Planet.

Aug 27, 2015