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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.

Mars name-a-crater scheme runs into trouble

The world's paramount astronomical authority on Tuesday slapped down a bid to hawk the names of Mars' craters, saying the Red Planet's monickers are not up for sale.

Mar 11, 2014

India’s Mars mission to reach Red Planet in 200 days

India's maiden Mars mission, launched in November last year, is likely to reach the Red Planet in 200 days, the state-owned space agency has said.

Mar 10, 2014

Opportunity Mars Rover Exploring Murray Ridge Area

Opportunity is exploring 'Murray Ridge' on Solander Point, part of the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Mar 9, 2014

Mars Rover Oppportunity Crushing Rocks With Wheels

Opportunity is exploring "Murray Ridge" on Solander Point, part of the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Mar 6, 2014

Relay Radio on Mars-Bound NASA Craft Passes Checkout

The team operating NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission successfully completed, on Feb.

Mar 5, 2014

Robotic Arm Crushes Rock for Study

Opportunity is exploring 'Murray Ridge' on Solander Point, part of the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Mar 5, 2014

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Views Striated Ground

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has reached an area where orbital images had piqued researchers' interest in patches of ground with striations all oriented in a similar direction.

Mar 3, 2014

Curiosity Adds Reverse Driving for Wheel Protection

Terrain that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is now crossing is as smooth as team members had anticipated based on earlier images from orbit.

Feb 20, 2014

NASA Mars Orbiter Views Opportunity Rover on Ridge

A new image from a telescopic camera orbiting Mars shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at work on "Murray Ridge," without any new impact craters nearby.

Feb 20, 2014

Curiosity Drives On After Crossing Martian Dune

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is continuing its traverse toward enticing science destinations after climbing over a dune spanning a gap in a ridge.

Feb 19, 2014

The World Above and Beyond

It's almost five times easier to leave Mars than it is to leave Earth or Venus.

Feb 18, 2014

Mars Rover Heads Uphill After Solving ‘Doughnut’ Riddle

This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows where a rock called "Pinnacle Island" (lower left corner) had been before it…

Feb 17, 2014

NASA solves mystery of Mars ‘doughnut’ rock

NASA scientists were finally able to explain the origin of the mysterious rock shaped like a jelly doughnut that appeared near the rover Opportunity in early January.

Feb 15, 2014

ASU Mars camera to get new views of Red Planet

For the first time since the Viking Mars mission of the 1970s, which ended more than a generation ago, scientists will soon begin systematic observations of Mars from orbit at times of day around local sunrise and sunset.

Feb 14, 2014

Calculated Risks: How Radiation Rules Mars Exploration

Nearly everything we know about the radiation exposure on a trip to Mars we have learned in the past 200 days.

Feb 14, 2014

‘Pinnacle Island’ Rock Studies Continue

Opportunity is up on "Solander Point," part of the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Feb 14, 2014