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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.

NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Reveals Geological Mystery

NASA's long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers.

Nov 13, 2012

More Driving And Imaging At ‘Matijevic Hill’

Opportunity is continuing 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 8, 2012

Curiosity Team Switches Back to Earth Time

After three months working on "Mars time," the team operating NASA Mars rover Curiosity has switched to more regular hours, as planned.

Nov 7, 2012

Survey of ‘Matijevic Hill’ Continues

Opportunity has completed approximately half 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 7, 2012

Mars Longevity Champ Switching Computers

NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, already the longest-working spacecraft ever sent to Mars, will switch to some fresh, redundant equipment next week that has…

Nov 5, 2012

NASA Rover Finds Clues to Changes in Mars’ Atmosphere

NASA's car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere.

Nov 5, 2012

Nereidum Montes helps unlock Mars’ glacial past

On 6 June, the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express revisited the Argyre basin as featured in our October release, but this time aiming at Nereidum Montes, some 380 km northeast of Hooke crater.

Nov 2, 2012

Preliminary Self-Portrait of Curiosity by Rover’s Arm Camera

On Sol 84 (Oct. 31, 2012), the Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture the set of thumbnail images stitched together to create this full-color self-portrait.

Nov 2, 2012

Continuing Work With Scoops at ‘Rocknest’

NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity on Sol 82 (Oct. 29, 2012) used its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to photograph the diverse rocks in the "Rocknest&quot…

Oct 31, 2012

Curiosity on Mars sits on rocks similar to those found in marshes in Mexico

Millions of years ago fire and water forged the gypsum rocks locked in at Cuatro Cienegas, a Mexican valley similar to the Martian crater where NASA's Rover Curiosity roams.

Oct 31, 2012

Curiosity’s Tastes of Martian Soil Offer Insights on Mineral Composition

NASA's Curiosity rover has taken its first bites out of the Martian surface and used the materials scooped up, sieved and portioned to cleanse the palate…

Oct 31, 2012

NASA Rover’s First Soil Studies Help Fingerprint Martian Minerals

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii.

Oct 31, 2012

Baumgartner: Mars travel a waste of money

Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner says he believes NASA's Mars mission is a waste of money that could be used for "saving our planet."

Oct 27, 2012

Assessing Drop-Off to Mars Rover’s Observation Tray

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the mission's 78th sol (Oct.

Oct 26, 2012

Opportunity Undertakes Survey Drives Of Local Area

Opportunity is continuing a 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.

Oct 26, 2012

Valles Marineris – the largest canyon in the Solar System

Mars is clearly much smaller than Earth, but it can still come up with impressive superlatives.

Oct 23, 2012