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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’s Curiosity Mars Rover Drills at ‘Telegraph Peak’

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its drill on Tuesday, Feb. 24 to collect sample powder from inside a rock target called "Telegraph Peak." The…

Feb 27, 2015

Using Curiosity to Search for Life

Scientist Pamela Conrad helps give Curiosity a daily to-do list to look for life's building blocks on Mars.

Feb 26, 2015

How Can We Protect Mars From Earth, While Searching For Life

The search for life on Mars presents us with many challenges - not the least of which is microbial contamination.

Feb 26, 2015

The Search For Volcanic Eruptions On Mars Reaches The Next Level

A new study of emissions from Martian volcanoes suggests there is no activity going on right now, but researchers aren't ruling out recent eruptions.

Feb 26, 2015

Curiosity Self-Portrait at ‘Mojave’ Site on Mount Sharp

This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Mojave" site, where its drill collected the mission's second taste of Mount Sharp.

Feb 25, 2015

Surviving Mars on Earth

Meet the man who has survived Mars on Earth. Diego Urbina, an Italian-Colombian engineer, was a part of 520-day, record-breaking simulated mission to the Red Planet.

Feb 24, 2015

The highest plume ever observed on Mars

In the thin, cold, dry atmosphere of Mars the winds blow and raise the dust from the surface to an altitude of about 50 km.

Feb 20, 2015

Opportunity Gets Small Energy Boost With Panel Dust Off

The project is preparing to mask off the troubled Bank 7 sector of the Flash file system with a new version of the flight software to be uploaded shortly.

Feb 20, 2015

Mystery Mars plume baffles scientists

Plumes seen reaching high above the surface of Mars are causing a stir among scientists studying the atmosphere on the Red Planet.

Feb 20, 2015

Up, Up and Away! First Humans Chosen for Mission to Mars

One hundred people from around the world have been shortlisted for a mission to Mars.

Feb 20, 2015

Latest Drive Puts Rover Within Marathon-Distance Record

Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards "Marathon Valley," a putative location for abundant clay minerals now only about 656 feet (200 meters) away.

Feb 20, 2015

MAVEN Completes First Deep Dip Campaign

NASA'S Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution has completed the first of five deep-dip maneuvers designed to gather measurements closer to the lower end of the Martian upper atmosphere.

Feb 20, 2015

Mars hills hide icy past

A complex network of isolated hills, ridges and small basins spanning 1400 km on Mars is thought to hide large quantities of water-ice.

Feb 20, 2015

Mars One cuts list of potential colonists to 100

Dutch interplanetary exploration startup Mars One has further narrowed down the list of potential colonists from over 202,000 to just 100.

Feb 17, 2015

Scientists fail to explain strange plumes spotted on Martian surface

In 2012, dozens of amateur astronomers spotted large plumes of dust rising off the surface of Mars.

Feb 16, 2015

NASA’s Curiosity Analyzing Sample of Martian Mountain

The second bite of a Martian mountain taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover hints at long-ago effects of water that was more acidic than any evidenced in the rover's first taste of Mount Sharp, a layered rock record of ancient Martian environments.

Feb 12, 2015