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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.

Big Nickel Rock Target Ahead

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 26, 2013 - Opportunity is conducting the post-walkabout in-situ (contact) science campaign at different locations around the inboard edge of 'Cape York' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3221 (Feb.

Feb 26, 2013

Mars rover ingests rock powder for tests

Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Feb 25, 2013 - NASA scientists say two compact laboratories inside the Mars rover Curiosity have ingested the first rock powder ever collected from inside a martian rock.

Feb 25, 2013

India plans mission to Mars in 2013

New Delhi (AFP) Feb 21, 2013 - India said on Thursday it will send a $70 million space mission to Mars this year to study the red planet's atmosphere.

Feb 21, 2013

NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2013 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled

Feb 21, 2013

Rover finds gray rock beneath Red Planet’s surface

Washington (AFP) Feb 20, 2013 - So much for Mars being The Red Planet.

Feb 20, 2013

At the mouth of the red valley

Paris (ESA) Feb 19, 2013 - ESA's Mars Express took a high-resolution stereo image on 13 January of the southeast corner of the Amenthes Planum region on Mars, near to Palos crater and the mouth of a well-known sinuous valley,

Feb 19, 2013

Bleach could hamper Mars life search

Boston (UPI) Feb 18, 2013 - A martian meteorite frozen in antarctic ice suggests we may need to dig deeper into Mars to search for traces of past life, U.S. researchers say.

Feb 18, 2013

NASA’s MAVEN Mission Completes Assembly

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 18, 2013 - NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colo. MAVEN is the nex

Feb 18, 2013

Rover Walkabout Continues at Cape York

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 14, 2013 - Opportunity is conducting the post-walkabout in-situ (contact) science campaign on the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3208 (Jan. 31, 2013), the rover collecte

Feb 14, 2013

Mars Rock Takes Unusual Form

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 14, 2013 - On Mars, as on Earth, sometimes things can take on an unusual appearance. A case in point is a shiny-looking rock seen in a recent image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. Some casual obs

Feb 14, 2013

How The World’s Saltiest Pond Gets Its Salt; Implications For Water On Mars

Providence RI (SPX) Feb 11, 2013 - Antarctica's Don Juan Pond might be the unlikeliest body of water on Earth. Situated in the frigid McMurdo Dry Valleys, only the pond's high salt content - by far the highest of any body of water on

Feb 11, 2013

Lockheed Martin Completes Assembly, Begins Environmental Testing of NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft

Denver CO (SPX) Feb 11, 2013 - Lockheed Martin has completed the assembly of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. The orbiter is now undergoing environmental testing at the company's Space Systems fac

Feb 11, 2013

NASA Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 11, 2013 - NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This is the first t

Feb 11, 2013

In milestone, Mars rover collects first bedrock sample

Washington (AFP) Feb 9, 2013 - In a first, the Mars rover Curiosity has penetrated a rock on the Red Planet and collected a sample from its interior, the US space agency announced Saturday.

Feb 9, 2013

Mars rover successfully negotiates risky move over sand dune

Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Feb 7, 2013 - The Mars rover Curiosity successfully negotiated its way across the largest sand dune it has encountered, NASA said.

Feb 7, 2013

Weekend Test on Mars Was Preparation to Drill a Rock

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 06, 2013 - The bit of the rock-sampling drill on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity left its mark on a Martian rock this weekend during brief testing of the tool's percussive action. The successful activity, ca

Feb 6, 2013