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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.

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

How Space Station Can Help Humans Follow Curiosity to Mars and Beyond

With all of the excitement of the Mars Curiosity landing, many are looking to move from robots to humans for exploration beyond Earth's orbit.

Oct 19, 2012

Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside Rover

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission.

Oct 19, 2012

Opportunity Is On The Move Around ‘Matijevic Hill’

Opportunity is conducting a local area survey around the location where orbital observations show the presence of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Oct 19, 2012

Rover eyes ‘man-made’ objects in Martian dirt

NASA's Mars rover has swallowed its first scoopful of dirt from the Red Planet's surface -- and found some bright-colored objects that experts briefly thought might be man-made, the US space agency said Thursday.

Oct 18, 2012

NMSU Graduate Student Looks For Indications Of Life On Mars In Possible Trace Methane Gas

An astronomy graduate student at New Mexico State University spoke Tuesday about her research studying the possible detection of methane gas on Mars at a…

Oct 17, 2012

Rover’s Second Scoop Discarded, Third Scoop Commanded

Commands will be sent to Curiosity instructing the rover to collect a third scoop of soil from the "Rocknest" site of windblown Martian sand and dust.

Oct 16, 2012

Robotic Arm Tools Get To Work On Rock Outcrop

Opportunity is conducting an in-situ (contact) science campaign at a location where orbital observations show the presence of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Oct 15, 2012

Curiosity Preparing for Second Scoop

On Sol 65 (Oct. 11, 2012) of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed several activities in preparation for collecting its second scoop of soil.

Oct 15, 2012

Mars Rock Touched by NASA Curiosity has Surprises

The first Martian rock NASA's Curiosity rover has reached out to touch presents a more varied composition than expected from previous missions.

Oct 12, 2012

Meteorite delivers Martian secrets to University of Alberta researcher

A meteorite that landed in the Moroccan desert 14 months ago is providing more information about Mars, the planet where it originated.

Oct 12, 2012

Mars rover makes surprising rock find

A rock analyzed by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has a surprising and more varied composition that resembles rare rocks from the bowels of our planet, the US space agency said Thursday.

Oct 11, 2012

Resume Working with First Scooped Sample

The team operating Curiosity decided on Oct. 9, 2012, to proceed with using the rover's first scoop of Martian material.

Oct 11, 2012

Checking a Bright Object on the Ground

Curiosity's first scooping activity appeared to go well on Oct. 7.

Oct 10, 2012

China to collect samples from Mars by 2030: Xinhua

China is planning to collect samples from the surface of Mars by 2030, according to the chief scientist of the country's lunar orbiter project, state media reported Wednesday.

Oct 10, 2012

Curiosity Update: Object Likely Benign Plastic from Curiosity Rover

Curiosity's main activity in the 62nd sol of the mission (Oct. 8, 2012) was to image a small, bright object on the ground using the Remote Micro-Imager of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument.

Oct 10, 2012