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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.

U.K. study: Mars surface too dry for life

London (UPI) Feb 3, 2012 - Life could not exist on the surface of Mars because the planet has been in a super-drought lasting 600 million years, British researchers say.

Feb 3, 2012

Mars Rover Science Investigations Continue as Solar Energy Levels Drop

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2012 - Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production during the winter. Opp

Jan 31, 2012

Russia blames ‘cosmic rays’ for Mars probe failure

Moscow (AFP) Jan 31, 2012 - Russia on Tuesday blamed a computer malfunction caused by the impact of cosmic rays for the failure of its Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars, one of a litany of setbacks for its embattled space programme.

Jan 31, 2012

Mars Orbiter Shows Wind’s Handiwork

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 30, 2012 - Some images of stark Martian landscapes provide visual appeal beyond their science value, including a recent scene of wind-sculpted features from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRI

Jan 30, 2012

Mars Rover Finds New Evidence of Water

Laurel MA (SPX) Jan 26, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Opportunity discovered a mineral vein telling of a warmer, wetter and potentially more conducive to life past for the seemingly cold, dry and desolate Red Planet. The mineral vein,

Jan 26, 2012

U.S. Denies Link to Mars Mission Failure

Washington (RIA Novosti) Jan 24, 2012 - A spokesperson at the Department of State denied information that the crash of the Phobos-Grunt probe to the Martian moon Phobos could have been caused by a powerful electromagnetic emission from a

Jan 24, 2012

Adjusting Robotic Arm on Amboy Rock

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 20, 2012 - Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. Opportunity is conduc

Jan 20, 2012

Space Agency Boss Blames Makers for Satellite Crash

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 20, 2012 - A Russian government commission looking into the crash of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe says engineering flaws were the main cause of its failure, the head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Vladi

Jan 20, 2012

Three Generations of Rovers with Crouching Engineers

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 20, 2012 - Two spacecraft engineers join a grouping of vehicles providing a comparison of three generations of Mars rovers developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The setting is JPL's M

Jan 20, 2012

‘Flaws’ blamed for Russian space failure

Moscow (UPI) Jan 19, 2012 - The failure of a Russian Mars mission that crashed back to Earth was due to testing errors and engineering flaws, the head of the country's space agency says.

Jan 19, 2012

Lost in simulated space on the way to Mars

Beijing (XNA) Jan 19, 2012 - China's Wang Yue was one of astronauts in the Mars-500 project to discover the effects of prolonged space flight on the body and mind. Wang Ru reports. Wang Yue, who is still recovering from 5

Jan 19, 2012

US may be behind Mars probe failure: Russia

Moscow (AFP) Jan 17, 2012 - Russia on Tuesday said the failure of its Phobos-Grunt probe for Mars could have been caused by radiation from US radars, in its latest allegation of Western interference in its space programme.

Jan 17, 2012

Opportunity Targets Amboy Rock For Extra Study Ahead of Winter

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 16, 2012 - Opportunity is positioned for winter on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is tilted about 15 degrees to the north for favorable solar energy production. Op

Jan 16, 2012

Mars Express spots wrinkle ridges and grabens in Tempe Terra

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2012 - Tempe Terra is located at the northeastern edge of the Tharsis volcanic region and forms the transition zone between the southern highlands and the northern lowlands. This area is characterised by a

Jan 13, 2012

Mars Science Lab Completes Biggest Maneuver On Route To Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2012 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the biggest maneuver planned for the mission's journey between Earth and Mars. We've completed a

Jan 12, 2012

The Challenges of Building A House on Mars

Madison WI (SPX) Jan 11, 2012 - Going to Mars? Expect to stay a while. Because of the relative motions of Earth and Mars, the pioneering astronauts who touch down on the Martian surface will have to remain there for a year and a h

Jan 11, 2012