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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.

Mystery of missing Mars signals solved

Boston (UPI) Jul 25, 2012 - A spacecraft sending data from Mars to Earth had its signal repeatedly interrupted in 2005 and scientists say they've learned the culprit - the sun.

Jul 25, 2012

ExoMars program gathers strength

Moscow, Russia (Voice of Russia) Jul 23, 2012 - The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) are expected to sign an agreement on the implementation of the second stage of the ExoMars program in the fall of 2012.

Jul 23, 2012

Opportunity Runs the First Martian Marathon

Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 19, 2012 - With all the fanfare about Mars rover Curiosity landing on the Red Planet in August 2012, it's easy to forget that there's already a rover on Mars-an older, smaller cousin set to accomplish a feat u

Jul 19, 2012

NASA Conducts Mission Simulations In Hawaii

Hilo HI (SPX) Jul 19, 2012 - NASA is conducting a nine-day field test starting Tuesday outside Hilo, Hawaii, to evaluate new exploration techniques for the surface of the moon. These mission simulations, known as analog mission

Jul 19, 2012

Opportunity Continues to Explore Rocks on the Rim of Endeavour Crater

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 18, 2012 - Opportunity is still exploring the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Most of this period focused on analyzing the rock target Grasberg with the Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)

Jul 18, 2012

Curiosity Rover on Track for Early August Landing

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2012 - A maneuver on Tuesday adjusted the flight path of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft for delivering the rover Curiosity to a landing target beside a Martian mountain. The car-size, one-

Jul 17, 2012

Developing Technologies For Living Off the Land…In Space

Houston TX (SPX) Jul 17, 2012 - Each spacecraft, crewed or robotic, encounters an extraordinary spectrum of vast resources throughout its journey. From the first space missions onward, space architects and scientists have consider

Jul 17, 2012

Follow Your Curiosity: Some New Ways to Explore Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2012 - As NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity prepares to land on Mars, public audiences worldwide can take their own readiness steps to share in the adventure. Landing is scheduled for about 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug

Jul 17, 2012

Orbiter Enters, Then Exits, Standby Safe Mode

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2012 - NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter experienced about 21 hours in a reduced-activity precautionary status ending at about 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, July 12. The orbiter put itself in the precaut

Jul 17, 2012

NASA’s Car-Sized Rover Nears Daring Landing on Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2012 - NASA's most advanced planetary rover is on a precise course for an early August landing beside a Martian mountain to begin two years of unprecedented scientific detective work. However, getting the

Jul 17, 2012

India likely to approve Mars mission

New Delhi (UPI) Jul 16, 2012 - India's government is expected to give its approval for the country to embark on an unmanned mission to Mars, the Indian Space Research Organization said.

Jul 16, 2012

NASA’s Mars rover two weeks from landing

Washington (AFP) July 16, 2012 - NASA's Curiosity rover is on target to arrive on Mars on August 6 for a two-year mission to find out whether microbial life once existed on the Red Planet, the US space agency said Monday.

Jul 16, 2012

HI-C sounding rocket mission has finest mirrors ever made

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 13, 2012 - On July 11, NASA scientists will launch into space the highest resolution solar telescope ever to observe the solar corona, the million degree outer solar atmosphere. The instrument, called HI-C for

Jul 13, 2012

Final Six-Member Crew Selected for Mars Food Mission

Honolulu HI (SPX) Jul 09, 2012 - After receiving more than 700 applications, a team of researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Cornell University have selected six individuals to make up the crew of a simulated Mars

Jul 9, 2012

Opportunity Celebratres 3,000 Martian Days of Operation on the Surface of Mars!

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2012 - Opportunity has now exceeded 3,000 sols, or Martian days, of operation on the surface of Mars! The rover is still exploring the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 29

Jul 9, 2012

Life’s molecules could lie within reach of Mars Curiosity rover

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 09, 2012 - Stick a shovel in the ground and scoop. That's about how deep scientists need to go in order to find evidence for ancient life on Mars, if there is any to be found, a new study suggests. That's with

Jul 9, 2012