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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.

System could be ‘brain’ for Mars rovers

Didcot, England (UPI) Dec 12, 2011 - British scientists have announced a project they say could allow Mars rovers to roam autonomously around the planet.

Dec 12, 2011

Life possible on ‘large parts’ of Mars: study

Sydney (AFP) Dec 12, 2011 - Australian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said Monday that large regions could sustain life.

Dec 12, 2011

Russia could join ExoMars as full partner

Paris (RIA Novosti) Dec 12, 2011 - Russia could become a full partner in a planned U.S.-European Mars exploration project, a European Space Agency (ESA) spokesman has said. The Space News International website quoted Franco Bon

Dec 12, 2011

Opportunity to Stop and Study Rocks

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 12, 2011 - Opportunity is currently exploring one of the candidate sites for winter, on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 2792 (Dec. 1, 2011), the rover bumped backwards

Dec 12, 2011

Failed Mars probe to fall to Earth

Moscow (UPI) Dec 9, 2011 - A Russian spacecraft that failed to head for Mars after its November launch will fall back to Earth Jan. 9, experts said.

Dec 9, 2011

Russia may join European Mars mission

Moscow (UPI) Dec 9, 2011 - Russia could become a full partner in a planned U.S.-European Mars exploration mission, a European Space Agency spokesman said.

Dec 9, 2011

Opportunity Spent Holiday at ‘Turkey Haven’

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 08, 2011 - Opportunity spent the Thanksgiving holiday at a location called Turkey Haven, on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. This particular location provided favorable northe

Dec 8, 2011

Mars Opportunity Rover Finds Gypsum Water Deposit

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 08, 2011 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet envir

Dec 8, 2011

Mars Opportunity Rover Finds Rich Vein Of Gypsum Water Deposits

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 08, 2011 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet envir

Dec 8, 2011

New Tool for Touring Mars Using Detailed Images

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 08, 2011 - An improved tool has been introduced for viewing channels, dunes, boulders and other features revealed in the huge image files from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on

Dec 8, 2011

SAM I Am

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2011 - The Mars Science Laboratory is on its way to the red planet, and its rover Curiosity should touch down next summer. If the mission hits paydirt and comes across organic material, then one instrument

Dec 7, 2011

Two UT Scientists Search for Potential Habitats for Life on Mars

Knoxville TN (SPX) Dec 05, 2011 - Two University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professors are searching for potential habitats for life on Mars. Linda Kah and Jeffrey Moersch, associate professors of earth and planetary sciences, are an

Dec 5, 2011

MSL Course Excellent, Adjustment Postponed

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 05, 2011 - Excellent launch precision for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has forestalled the need for an early trajectory correction maneuver, now not required for a month or more. That first of

Dec 5, 2011

Mars Mission Hoping To Satisfy Curiosity

Leicester UK (SPX) Dec 05, 2011 - The University of Leicester is to play a key role in NASA's $2.5 billion mission to Mars. Dr. John Bridges of the University's Space Research Centre leads a team from the University of Leicester, th

Dec 5, 2011

Mountains and Buried Ice on Mars

Paris (ESA) Dec 05, 2011 - New images from Mars Express show the Phlegra Montes mountain range, in a region where radar probing indicates large volumes of water ice are hiding below. This could be a source of water for future

Dec 5, 2011

ESA gives up bids to contact stranded Russian space probe

Moscow (AFP) Dec 2, 2011 - The European Space Agency said it will no longer try to make contact with Russia's stranded Mars probe Phobos-Grunt if attempts made Friday fail.

Dec 2, 2011