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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.

Curiosity celebrates one-year Martian anniversary

For exactly one year now, the beloved Mars rover Curiosity has delivered knowledge to NASA scientists and joy to science lovers across the globe.

Jun 24, 2013

Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover

A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great detail.

Jun 21, 2013

Mars had oxygen-rich atmosphere 4,000 million years ago

Differences between Martian meteorites and rocks examined by a NASA rover can be explained if Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere 4000 million years ago - well before the rise of atmospheric oxygen on Earth 2500m years ago.

Jun 21, 2013

ExoMars 2016 Set To Complete Construction

ESA's mission to Mars in 2016 has entered the final stage of construction with the signature of a contract with Thales Alenia Space at the Paris Air and Space Show.

Jun 19, 2013

Study: Mars may have had ancient oxygen-rich atmosphere

A British scientist says new findings suggest Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere more than a billion years before Earth developed its own.

Jun 19, 2013

Opportunity Recovers From Another Flash-Related Reset

On sols 3332 and 3333 (June and June 9, 2013) , Opportunity performed a 'touch 'n go' two-sol plan, using the robotic arm on the first sol to…

Jun 19, 2013

Mars Water-Ice Clouds Are Key to Odd Thermal Rhythm

Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found that temperatures in the Martian atmosphere regularly rise and fall not just once each day, but twice.

Jun 14, 2013

Marks on Martian Dunes May Reveal Tracks of Dry-Ice Sleds

NASA research indicates that hunks of frozen carbon dioxide - or dry ice - may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go.

Jun 13, 2013

UH Astrobiologists Find Martian Clay Contains Chemical Implicated in the Origin of Life

Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa NASA Astrobiology Institute (UHNAI) have discovered high concentrations of boron in a Martian meteorite.

Jun 13, 2013

SciTechTalk: Mars rover readies for ‘road trip’ on the Red Planet

NASA says its Mars Curiosity rover will finish up its scientific investigations in its initial landing area -- working in an area smaller than a football field -- and enter a "distance-driving" mode ... but don't get too excited.

Jun 9, 2013

Aging Mars rover makes new water discoveries

Scientists on Friday called NASA's Opportunity rover gimpy and arthritic, but hailed its new discoveries about early water on Mars made almost 10 years after it was launched toward the Red Planet.

Jun 7, 2013

The floodwaters of Mars

Dramatic flood events carved this impressive channel system on Mars covering 1.55 million square kilometres, shown here in a stunning new mosaic from ESA's Mars Express.

Jun 7, 2013

Driving to ‘Solander Point’

Opportunity is continuing her push to reach "Solander Point," still over 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) away.

Jun 7, 2013

First woman in space ready for ‘one-way flight to Mars’

Russia's Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to go to space, said on Friday she was ready to score another coup and fly to Mars, even if it would be just a one-way trip.

Jun 7, 2013

Curiosity Mars Rover Nears Turning Point

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission is approaching its biggest turning point since landing its rover, Curiosity, inside Mars' Gale Crater last summer.

Jun 6, 2013

The Crowning Glory of Mars

A swirling mound of ice riddled with dark spiral troughs crowns the north pole of Mars, seen here in a new mosaic from ESA's Mars Express.

Jun 6, 2013