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Mars Daily Editorial Team

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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.

MRO Swapping Motion-Sensing Units

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is switching from one motion-sensing device to a duplicate unit onboard.

Aug 13, 2013

Opportunity Reaches Base of ‘Solander Point’

Opportunity is at the base of 'Solander Point' on the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Aug 12, 2013

NASA launches new Russian-language Mars website

"A NASA website containing detailed images sent by a high-resolution camera orbiting Mars is now available in Russian, thanks to a 60-strong team of volunteer translators", a spokesman for the project said Thursday.

Aug 9, 2013

Big ice may explain Mars’ double-layer craters

Geologists from Brown University have developed a promising new explanation for a mysterious type of crater on the surface on Mars.

Aug 7, 2013

Full Curiosity Traverse Passes One-Mile Mark

The total distance driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity passed the one-mile mark a few days before the first anniversary of the rover's landing on Mars.

Aug 7, 2013

NASA Begins Launch Preparations for Next Mars Mission

NASA's next spacecraft going to Mars arrived Friday, Aug. 2, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and is now perched in a cleanroom to begin final preparations for its November launch.

Aug 7, 2013

NASA Curiosity Rover Approaches First Anniversary on Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover will mark one year on Mars next week and has already achieved its main science goal of revealing ancient Mars could have supported life.

Aug 6, 2013

Curious craters on Mars said result of impacts into ancient ice

U.S. geologists say they've come up with a new explanation for a mysterious double-layer type of crater observed on Mars, and it's all about ice and impacts.

Aug 5, 2013

Mars rover hoping to yield more secrets, one year on

The dazzling success of NASA's rover Curiosity has paved the way for a human conquest of Mars, scientists say, almost one year after the groundbreaking probe first touched down on the Red Planet.

Aug 4, 2013

Space cadets in Washington for one-way ticket to Mars

Around 40 volunteers from thousands who applied for a one-way ticket to Mars gathered in the US capital Saturday to hear from the man behind plans to colonize the Red Planet.

Aug 3, 2013

Mars Rover Opportunity Nears Solander Point

Opportunity has arrived in the region near the base of 'Solander Point.' At the current location, the rover is just a few drives from making landfall on the point.

Jul 30, 2013

Curiosity Mars Rover Gleams in View from Orbiter

An image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and the wheel tracks from its landing site to the &quot…

Jul 26, 2013

Ancient snowfall likely carved Martian valleys

Valley networks branching across the Martian surface leave little doubt that water once flowed on the Red Planet.

Jul 24, 2013

Scientists establish age of Mars meteorites found on Earth

A team led by Canadian researchers says the most common meteorites from Mars found on Earth are almost 4 billion years younger than believed.

Jul 24, 2013

Mars Curiosity sets one-day driving distance record

NASA says its Curiosity rover on Mars has set a personal best, driving twice as far on Sunday as on any other day of the mission so far.

Jul 23, 2013

Reports Detail Mars Rover Clues to Atmosphere’s Past

A pair of new papers report measurements of the Martian atmosphere's composition by NASA's Curiosity rover, providing evidence about loss of much of Mars' original atmosphere.

Jul 19, 2013