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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.

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

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

Shallow Groundwater Reservoirs May Have Been Common On Mars

Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 23, 2010 - An international research team led by the Planetary Science Institute has found evidence for reservoirs of liquid water on Mars at shallow crustal depths of as little as tens of meters. J. Ale

Nov 23, 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

NASA Mars Rover Images Honor Apollo 12

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 22, 2010 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has visited and photographed two craters informally named for the spacecraft that carried men to the moon 41 years ago this week. Opportunity drove pa

Nov 22, 2010

Leicester Scientists Involved In Development Of New Breed Of Space Vehicle

Leicester, UK (SPX) Nov 19, 2010 - Scientists and engineers at the internationally acclaimed Space Research Centre at the University of Leicester are developing a conceptual motor design for a Mars 'hopping' vehicle which should lead

Nov 19, 2010

IceBite Blog: Setting Up An IceBreaker

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2010 - Since the arrival to the McMurdo station in the Antarctic two days ago, most of our time has been spent on assembling and testing our Mars prototype drill: the Icebreaker. Icebreaker was built to br

Nov 18, 2010

Camera On Curiosity’s Arm Will Magnify Clues In Rocks

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 17, 2010 - NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, will wield an arm-mounted magnifying camera similar to one on the Mars Rover Opportunity, which promptly demonstrated its importance for reading environmental hist

Nov 17, 2010