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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 Rover Preparing for Thanksgiving Activities

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed a touch-and-go inspection of one rock on Sunday, Nov.

Nov 22, 2012

Curiosity Team May Reveal Major Discovery Soon

The Curiosity Mars rover has made a potentially explosive discovery, experts said, but NASA scientists are keeping it under wraps to double-check the spacecraft's calculations.

Nov 22, 2012

Meteorite samples provide definitive evidence of water and rock types on Mars

Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, NASA's Johnson Space Center, Lunar Planetary Institute, and Carnegie Institute of Washington report on…

Nov 22, 2012

Survey At ‘Matijevic Hill’ Wrapping Up

Opportunity is nearing the completion of 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 22, 2012

Life on Mars? Maybe not. NASA rows back on findings

NASA downplayed Wednesday talk of a major discovery by its Martian rover after remarks by the mission chief raised hopes it may have unearthed evidence life once existed on the Red Planet.

Nov 21, 2012

Martian And Terran History Finding a common denominator

A team of scientists, including Carnegie's Conel Alexander and Jianhua Wang, studied the hydrogen in water from the Martian interior and found that Mars…

Nov 20, 2012

CU LASP package ready for MAVEN integration bound for Mars

A $20 million remote sensing instrument package built by the University of Colorado Boulder, which is leading a 2013 NASA mission to understand how Mars might…

Nov 18, 2012

Instrument Delivered for NASA’s Upcoming Mars Mission

A remote sensing instrument that will peer into the ultraviolet to offer clues to how Mars might have lost its atmosphere has arrived at Lockheed Martin for integration into NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.

Nov 18, 2012

Melt water on Mars could sustain life

Near surface water has shaped the landscape of Mars. Areas of the planet's northern and southern hemispheres have alternately thawed and frozen in recent geologic history and comprise striking similarities to the landscape of Svalbard.

Nov 18, 2012

Meteorites reveal warm water existed on Mars

New research by the University of Leicester and The Open University into evidence of water on Mars, sufficiently warm enough to support life, has been published this week in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Nov 18, 2012

NASA Rover Providing New Weather and Radiation Data About Mars

Observations of wind patterns and natural radiation patterns on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover are helping scientists better understand the environment on the Red Planet's surface.

Nov 18, 2012

Mars radiation levels not lethal to humans

The Mars rover Curiosity found radiation levels on Mars are not lethal to humans, U.S.

Nov 17, 2012

New views of the Martian ionosphere

High above the main body of Mars' atmosphere is a region of weakly ionised gas, known as the ionosphere.

Nov 16, 2012

Rover’s ‘SAM’ Lab Instrument Suite Tastes Soil

A pinch of fine sand and dust became the first solid Martian sample deposited into the biggest instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity: the Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM.

Nov 15, 2012

What Arctic Rocks Say About Mars: An Interview with Hans Amundsen

In 1996, a research group led by Dave McKay of NASA's Johnson Space Center claimed to have found evidence of fossilized life in a Mars meteorite.

Nov 13, 2012

Mars orbiter back online after system swap

NASA says its Mars Odyssey orbiter has resumed duty after switching to a set of redundant equipment not used since before the spacecraft's 2001 launch.

Nov 13, 2012