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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.

Mars Rover Spectrometer Finishes Calibration-Target Reading

On Sol 35 of its mission on Mars (Sept. 10, 2012) Curiosity continued activities for characterizing its arm and the tools on the arm.

Sep 14, 2012

Next Mars Mission Enters Final Phase Before Launch

NASA's Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission has passed a critical milestone, Key Decision Point-D or KDP-D.

Sep 13, 2012

NASA Mars Rover Curiosity’s Arm Wields Camera Well

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity stepped through activities on Sept. 7, 8 and 9 designed to check and characterize precision movements by the rover's robotic arm and use of tools on the arm.

Sep 13, 2012

Lockheed Martin Begins Final Assembly of NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft

Lockheed Martin has begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase for NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.

Sep 12, 2012

NASA Observations Point to ‘Dry Ice’ Snowfall on Mars

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data have given scientists the clearest evidence yet of carbon-dioxide snowfalls on Mars.

Sep 12, 2012

India: From Ferrying Rockets on Cycles to Eyeing Mars

From the days of having a church as control room, the bishop's house as office, a bicycle as ferry, naked eyes to track the smoke plume at Thumba in…

Sep 10, 2012

Hadley Crater – closing in on the Martian interior

Hadley Crater on Mars has been subject to several impacts by large asteroids in the course of its history.

Sep 7, 2012

Mars’s dramatic climate variations are driven by the Sun

On Mars's poles there are ice caps of ice and dust with layers that reflect to past climate variations on Mars.

Sep 7, 2012

Northrop Grumman Aids Navigation of NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover

Northrop Grumman supplied the navigation and pointing aid for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which recently began a historic two-year exploration of Mars.

Sep 7, 2012

NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Begins Arm-Work Phase

After driving more than a football field's length since landing, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is spending several days preparing for full use of the tools on its arm.

Sep 7, 2012

Curiosity Has a Photo Day

Curiosity took a sol off from driving and spent time during the mission's Sol 25, on Aug.

Sep 5, 2012

Opportunity Exceeds 35 Kilometers of Driving!

Opportunity has exceeded over 35 kilometers (21.75 miles) of odometry!

Aug 31, 2012

Marks of Laser Exam on Martian Soil

The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its laser to examine side-by-side points in a target patch of soil, leaving the marks apparent in this before-and-after comparison.

Aug 31, 2012

Opportunity Drives And Images Rock Outcrop

Opportunity is moving south along the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Aug 31, 2012

Curiosity Rover Plays First Song Transmitted from Another Planet

For the first time in history, a recorded song has been beamed back to Earth from another planet.

Aug 30, 2012

Mars suitable for colonization

Mars will become a major target for human space explorers in the next 50 years, experts from the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation say.

Aug 30, 2012