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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.

Auroras on Mars

One day, when humans go to Mars, they might find that, occasionally, the Red Planet has green skies.

May 15, 2015

Mystery Methane on Mars: The Saga Continues

A scientist has raised questions about the latest detection of methane on Mars, suggesting that NASA's rover could be responsible for the mysterious burp.

May 15, 2015

Russian Scientist Gets Patent on Transfiguring Martian Atmosphere

As the Earth's brainpower is focused on Mars exploration, a chemist privatized space engineering and is ready to make the Red Planet's atmosphere suitable for colonists.

May 14, 2015

Curiosity tracks sundown on Mars

The sun dips to a Martian horizon in a blue-tinged sky in images sent home to Earth this week from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.

May 14, 2015

Quick Detour by NASA Mars Rover Checks Ancient Valley

Researchers slightly detoured NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from the mission's planned path in recent days for a closer look at a hillside site where an ancient valley had been carved out and refilled.

May 14, 2015

NASA funds SwRI instrument to date Moon and Mars rocks

NASA has approved $2.6 million to advance development of Southwest Research Institute's (SwRI) Chemistry, Organics, and Dating Experiment (CODEX) instrument.

May 13, 2015

Student Mars Rover team will compete in Utah desert

A team of Cornell engineering students has advanced to the finals of the University Rover Challenge, a competition to build and operate a prototype radio-controlled vehicle that could assist astronauts exploring Mars.

May 9, 2015

NASA Announces Journey to Mars Challenge

What do you need to bring, and how do you minimize the need for delivery of future supplies in order to establish a sustained human presence on a planet 140 million miles away from Earth?

May 8, 2015

4,000+ Martian Days of Work on Mars!

Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater next to the "Spirit of St.

May 7, 2015

US space agency chief confident of putting Americans on Mars in 2030s

U.S. space agency NASA's Administrator Charles Bolden on Tuesday hailed progress on the manned Mars mission, saying that they are on track to reach the…

May 7, 2015

UAE says on track to send probe to Mars in 2021

Oil-rich United Arab Emirates said Wednesday it was pressing ahead with plans to send the first Arab unmanned probe to Mars by 2021, naming it "Hope".

May 6, 2015

Rock Spire in ‘Spirit of St. Louis Crater’ on Mars

An elongated crater called "Spirit of St. Louis," with a rock spire in it, dominates a recent scene from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.

May 5, 2015

Traffic Around Mars Gets Busy

NASA has beefed up a process of traffic monitoring, communication and maneuver planning to ensure that Mars orbiters do not approach each other too closely.

May 5, 2015

Rover on the Lookout for Dust Devils

Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater next to the "Spirit of St.

Apr 28, 2015

UAE opens space center to oversee mission to Mars

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) opened the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center on Saturday to oversee preparations of the country's Mars exploration probe mission.

Apr 23, 2015

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Making Tracks and Observations

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is continuing science observations while on the move this month.

Apr 17, 2015