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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.

Opportunity Rover Does Walkabout Of Crater Rim

The latest work assignment for NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is a further examination of an area where the robot just completed a walkabout.

Dec 5, 2012

Ancient Mars May Have Captured Enormous Floodwaters

An international research team led by the Planetary Science Institute has found evidence that indicates that approximately 2 billion years ago enormous volumes…

Dec 5, 2012

NASA Announces Multi-Year Mars Program With New Rover In 2020

Building on the success of Curiosity's Red Planet landing, NASA has announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars program, including a new robotic science…

Dec 5, 2012

China prepares to grow vegetables on Mars: state media

Chinese astronauts are preparing to grow fresh vegetables on Mars and the moon after researchers successfully completed a preliminary test in Beijing, state media reported.

Dec 4, 2012

Curiosity Shakes, Bakes, and Tastes Mars with SAM

NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars in Nov. with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite.

Dec 4, 2012

NASA to send new rover to Mars in 2020

NASA plans to send a new rover to Mars in 2020 as it prepares for a manned mission to the Red Planet, the US space agency said Tuesday.

Dec 4, 2012

NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil.

Dec 4, 2012

Opportunity Gets to Work on Interesting Rock Targets

Opportunity, after completing the local area survey around the location called "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard…

Dec 3, 2012

Opportunity Gets To Work On Interesting Rock

Opportunity, after completing the local area survey around the location called "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard…

Nov 30, 2012

Regional Dust Storm Dissipating

A regional dust storm on Mars, tracked from orbit since Nov. 10, appears to be abating rather than going global.

Nov 29, 2012

Fostering Curiosity: Mars Express relays rocky images

For the first time, ESA's Mars orbiter has relayed scientific data from NASA's Curiosity rover on the Red Planet's surface.

Nov 27, 2012

Matijevic Hill Survey Complete And Rover Passes 22 Miles Of Driving!

Opportunity has completed the local area survey around the location called "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Nov 27, 2012

One Year After Launch, Curiosity Rover Busy on Mars

The NASA Mars rover Curiosity began its flight to Mars on Nov. 26, 2011, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., tucked inside the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft.

Nov 27, 2012

NASA monitors massive dust storm on Mars

The US space agency says it is monitoring a massive dust storm on Mars that has produced atmospheric changes.

Nov 26, 2012

Intrigue from Mars, or Grotzinger’s silence

Mars rover Curiosity has collected shocking data that may make it into the history books, John Grotzinger, lead scientist of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, said on Thursday.

Nov 25, 2012

Spacecraft Monitoring Martian Dust Storm

A Martian dust storm that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been tracking since last week has also produced atmospheric changes detectable by rovers on Mars.

Nov 25, 2012