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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.

Twin Galileos meet, ready for Thursday’s launch

Paris (ESA) Aug 19, 2014 - Final functional testing of Europe's twin Galileo navigation satellites has been completed at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, on track for launch this Thursday. The fuelling of the two satellit

Aug 19, 2014

Curiosity Mars Rover Prepares for Fourth Rock Drilling

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 18, 2014 - The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has chosen a rock that looks like a pale paving stone as the mission's fourth drilling target, if it passes engineers' evaluation. They call it Bonanz

Aug 18, 2014

Tall Boulder Rolls Down Martian Hill, Lands Upright

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2014 - A track about one-third of a mile (500 meters) long on Mars shows where an irregularly shaped boulder careened downhill to its current upright position, seen in a July 3, 2014, image from the High R

Aug 15, 2014

Opportunity Heads to ‘Marathon Valley’

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 11, 2014 - Opportunity is moving south along the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a notch observed from orbit to have an abundant clay mineral signature. On Sol 3739 (July

Aug 11, 2014

Robotic Rock Climbers Could Uncover Clues to Mars’ Past

Moffet Field CA (NASA) Aug 07, 2014 - A robot that can scale the faces of steep cliffs might one day help explore Mars and find signs of life. The latest experiments with this Cliffbot showed it could help examine places otherwise dif

Aug 7, 2014

Russia To Construct Landing Pad For ExoMars Mission

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2014 - Russia will create a landing deck and provide a range of unique scientific equipment for a new Russian-European Mars mission known as ExoMars, Daniel Rodionov, a Russian scientific supervisor for th

Aug 7, 2014

NASA Mars Curiosity Rover: Two Years and Counting on Red Planet

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 07, 2014 - NASA's most advanced roving laboratory on Mars celebrates its second anniversary since landing inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6, 2012, EDT). During its first ye

Aug 7, 2014

NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Nears Mountain-Base Outcrop

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2014 - As it approaches the second anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover is also approaching its first close look at bedrock that is part of Mount Sharp, the layered mountain in the mi

Aug 6, 2014

Absence of Russia Instrument On NASA Mars Rover Not Political

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 05, 2014 - The absence of a Russian scientific instrument on board NASA's new Mars rover, scheduled for launch in 2020, should not be linked to political reasons; the instrument simply did not pass the competi

Aug 5, 2014

NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before

Washington DC (SPX) Aug 01, 2014 - The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red Planet. NASA

Aug 1, 2014

Los Alamos Laser Selected for 2020 Mars Mission

Los Alamos NM (SPX) Aug 01, 2014 - NASA has announced that laser technology originally developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been selected for its new Mars mission in 2020. We are extremely excited to be going to Mar

Aug 1, 2014

Mars 2020 rover will carry tools to make oxygen

Washington (AFP) July 31, 2014 - The suite of space-age tools loaded on NASA's next robotic vehicle, bound for the Red Planet in 2020, will include a device for making oxygen out of carbon dioxide.

Jul 31, 2014

NASA Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Passes 25 Miles of Driving

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 29, 2014 - NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving. The previous record was held

Jul 29, 2014

NASA’s Mars Spacecraft Maneuvers to Prepare for Close Comet Flyby

Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2014 - NASA is taking steps to protect its Mars orbiters, while preserving opportunities to gather valuable scientific data, as Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring heads toward a close flyby of Mars on Oct. 19.

Jul 29, 2014

NASA Seeks Proposals for Commercial Mars Data Relay Satellites

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 25, 2014 - NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to investigate the possibility of using commercial Mars-orbiting satellites to provide telecommunications capabilities for future robotic missions to

Jul 25, 2014

Emirates paves way for Middle East space program with mission to Mars

London, UK (SPX) Jul 25, 2014 - The United Arab Emirates has announced plans to launch a mission to Mars by 2021. A first for the Arab world, the mission and accompanying Space Agency are a big deal for the UAE - scientifically an

Jul 25, 2014