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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.

Opportunity Studying A Football-Field Size Crater

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 28, 2010 - On Dec. 16, 2010, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached a crater about the size of a football field-some 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter. The rover team plans to use cameras and s

Dec 28, 2010

NASA’s Next Mars Rover to Zap Rocks With Laser

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 28, 2010 - A rock-zapping laser instrument on NASA's next Mars rover has roots in a demonstration that Roger Wiens saw 13 years ago in a colleague's room at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Dec 28, 2010

NASA: Next Mars rover will carry a laser

Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Dec 23, 2010 - NASA says its next Mars rover will be equipped with a rock-zapping laser able to analyze the chemical composition of rocks and soil from more than 20 feet away.

Dec 23, 2010

Wind And Water Have Shaped Schiaparelli On Mars

Bonn, Germany (SPX) Dec 13, 2010 - The small crater embedded in the north-western rim of the Schiaparelli impact basin features prominently in this new image acquired by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German

Dec 13, 2010

The Three Ages Of Mars

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2010 - There is no place on Earth that is a perfect copycat of Mars as it is now, or as it was at any specific point in the past. But scientists suggest Earth has little versions of Mars as it might have b

Dec 10, 2010

Odyssey Orbiter Nears Martian Longevity Record

Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2010 - By the middle of next week, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will have worked longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history. Odyssey entered orbit around Mars on Oct. 24, 2001. On Dec. 15, the 3,34

Dec 10, 2010

Drilling For The Future Of Science

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2010 - Students in Robert Palassou's fifth-grade class at Valley View School got an unusual treat last month when scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center visited their Pleasanton, California, classroom

Dec 7, 2010

Opportunity Imaging Small Craters On Way To Endeavour

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 03, 2010 - Opportunity continues to make good progress towards Endeavour crater while collecting remote-sensing science observations (imaging) of small craters along the way. The rover drove on Sols 2429

Dec 3, 2010

Pits, Flows, Other Scenes In New Set Of Mars Images

Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 02, 2010 - Newly released images from 340 recent observations of Mars by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show details of a wide assortme

Dec 2, 2010

Spain Supplies Weather Station For Next Mars Rover

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 01, 2010 - The first instrument from Spain for a mission to Mars will provide daily weather reports from the Red Planet. Expect extremes. Major goals for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory include assessing

Dec 1, 2010

Opportunity Making Progress To Endeavour Crater

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 01, 2010 - Opportunity continues to make progress towards Endeavour crater while collecting remote-sensing science observations along the way. The rover drove on Sols 2424 (Nov. 18, 2010), and 2427 (Nov.

Dec 1, 2010

IceBite Blog: Remote Control

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 30, 2010 - On Thursday, Nov. 18th, we had a very exciting day. Our Mars drill was to be operated by a class of 5th grade students from Valley View School in Pleasanton, California. We got up early in the morni

Nov 30, 2010

Hopping Rovers For The Red Planet

Leicester, UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2010 - Scientists and engineers at the Space Research Centre at the University of Leicester are developing a conceptual motor design for a Mars 'hopping' vehicle which should lead to a greater understandin

Nov 28, 2010

Opportunity Checks out Intrepid Crater

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 24, 2010 - Opportunity has been navigating through a field of small impact craters on her way to Endeavour crater. Opportunity has has now exceeded 25 kilometers (15 miles) of odometry on the surface of Mars!

Nov 24, 2010

Earth bacteria could survive on Mars

London (UPI) Nov 23, 2010 - Common Earth bacteria could, in theory, survive in a dormant state in the harsh conditions on Mars for more than a million years, U.K. researchers say.

Nov 23, 2010

Russia To Launch Unmanned Lander To Martian Moon In October 2011

Moscow, Russia (XNA) Nov 23, 2010 - The head of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Anatoly Perminov, said here on Sunday that the launch of an unmanned lander to one of the moon of Mars, Phobos, was scheduled for October 2011.

Nov 23, 2010