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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.

Opportunity sampling continues at Marathon Valley

Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater near "Marathon Valley," a putative location for abundant clay minerals now only about 394 feet (120 meters) away.

Mar 16, 2015

Roscosmos: Manned Flight to Mars Will Be Impossible Without Russia’s Help

Roscosmos spokesperson Igor Bourenkov said Thursday that ambitious projects involving manned trips to deep space, including Mars, will have to be international…

Mar 15, 2015

NASA Challenge Invites Students to Help Design Journey to Mars Systems

College students have the opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation for NASA's journey to Mars by designing systems for future space habitats and…

Mar 13, 2015

Taking a Closer Look at Purple-Bluish Rock Formation

Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater near "Marathon Valley," a putative location for abundant clay minerals now only about 394 feet (120 meters) away.

Mar 11, 2015

Mystery Giant Mars Plumes Still Unexplained

On Feb. 16, an international group of researchers proposed new hypotheses about some unusual plumes spotted by amateur astronomers on Mars in 2012. The plumes were seen rising to altitudes of over 250 km above.

Mar 11, 2015

Have you ever used a camera on board an interplanetary spacecraft

In May, the 'webcam' on board Mars Express will be available for public imaging requests.

Mar 10, 2015

Revolutionary Engine Could Fuel Human Life on Mars

Thanks to groundbreaking research at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England, those who wish to one day colonize Mars have a new technique at their disposal to harvest energy from carbon dioxide.

Mar 9, 2015

Use of Rover Arm Expected to Resume in a Few Days

Managers of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover mission expect to approve resumption of rover arm movements as early as next week while continuing analysis of what appears to be an intermittent short circuit in the drill.

Mar 9, 2015

Opportunity Examining Odd Mars Rocks at Valley Overlook

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity climbed last month to an overlook for surveying "Marathon Valley," a science destination chosen because spectrometer observations from orbit indicate exposures of clay minerals.

Mar 6, 2015

Mars Colonization Edges Closer Thanks to MIT’s Oxygen Factory

Scientists at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are building an instrument, which will turn carbon dioxide on Mars into oxygen, with NASA…

Mar 6, 2015

Research Suggests Mars Once Had More Water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured water signatures in the Red Planet's atmosphere.

Mar 6, 2015

Mars: The Planet that Lost an Ocean’s Worth of Water

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, and covered a greater portion of the planet's surface than the Atlantic Ocean does on Earth, according to new results published this week.

Mar 6, 2015

Testing to Diagnose Power Event in Mars Rover

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is expected to remain stationary for several days of engineering analysis following an onboard fault-protection action on Feb.

Mar 5, 2015

Single Site on Mars Advanced for 2016 NASA Lander

NASA's next mission to Mars, scheduled to launch one year from today to examine the Red Planet's deep interior and investigate how rocky planets like…

Mar 5, 2015

New Flight Software to Fix Memory Issues is Onboard Rover

Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater near "Marathon Valley," a putative location for abundant clay minerals now only about 492 feet (150 meters) away.

Mar 3, 2015

Curiosity confirms methane in Mars’ atmosphere

The tunable laser spectrometer in the SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) instrument of the Curiosity robot has unequivocally detected an episodic increase in the…

Mar 2, 2015