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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.

Opportunity Keeps On Driving To Endeavour Crater

Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2010 - Over the past week, Opportunity completed a short bump before the weekend and two long drives after the weekend. The short bump was a 3-meter (10-foot) move on Sol 2397 (Oct. 21, 2010), to position

Nov 2, 2010

Ancient Mars Was Wet, Cozy And Life Friendly

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 01, 2010 - Light-colored mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone more than three billion years ago may preserve evidence of one of the most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars. Observatio

Nov 1, 2010

Study Links Fresh Mars Gullies To Carbon Dioxide

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 30, 2010 - A growing bounty of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals that the timing of new activity in one type of the enigmatic gullies on Mars implicates carbon-dioxide frost, rather than w

Oct 30, 2010

NASA Trapped Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 29, 2010 - The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis.

Oct 29, 2010

2013 Earliest Launch Date For China Mars Mission

Beijing (XNA) Oct 25, 2010 - China has drawn up a technical plan for an independent Mars orbiter exploration project, according to China's space technology expert. The plan was based on research conducted by the China Aca

Oct 25, 2010

A One-Way Trip To Mars Would Be Affordable

Pullman WA (SPX) Oct 25, 2010 - For the chance to watch the sun rise over Olympus Mons, or maybe take a stroll across the vast plains of the Vastitas Borealis, would you sign on for a one-way flight to Mars? It's a question

Oct 25, 2010

Testing The Exomars Rover In Mars-Like Conditions

Bonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 22, 2010 - A couple of clicks of the mouse are enough to send the ExoMars rover with its six flexible metal wheels moving across the sand tank towards the first obstacle. Bernhard Rebele, Maximilian Apfelbeck

Oct 22, 2010

Opportunity’s Eastward View After Sol 2382 Drive

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 22, 2010 - This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a 90-degree view centered toward the east following a 93.3-meter (306-foot) drive east-northeastwa

Oct 22, 2010

Opportunity Past The 15-Mile Mark On Mars

Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2010 - Opportunity crossed the 24-kilometer (15-mile) odometry mark on her way to Endeavour crater. The rover ended last week with the data backlog which limited activities over the weekend. On Sol 2

Oct 22, 2010

The Continuing Controversy Of The Mars Meteorite

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2010 - The most illustrious meteorite in history continues to inspire heated debate. Does it carry microbial fossils from Mars or are its strange features just the product of some unique geochemistry? Afte

Oct 22, 2010

Curiosity Builds A New Mars Rover

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 22, 2010 - A newly installed webcam is giving the public an opportunity to watch technicians assemble and test the next NASA Mars rover, one of the most technologically challenging interplanetary missions ever

Oct 22, 2010

Emerging Underground Aquifers Formed Martian Lakes

Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 19, 2010 - Researchers at the Planetary Science Institute have found a new explanation for how seas and lakes may have once developed on Mars.

Oct 19, 2010

Long-Lived Mars Odyssey Gets New Project Manager

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 18, 2010 - The new project manager for the longest-working spacecraft currently active at Mars, NASA's Mars Odyssey, has a long track record himself.

Oct 18, 2010

Revealing More About The Atmosphere Of Mars

Dallas TX (SPX) Oct 18, 2010 - Instruments designed by a UT Dallas professor to measure atmospheric components on the surface of Mars have uncovered important clues about the planet's atmosphere and climate history.

Oct 18, 2010

Rover Nears 15 Miles Of Driving On Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2010 - Opportunity drove only once this past week, nearing the 24-kilometer (15-mile) odometry mark.

Oct 15, 2010

Melas Chasma On Mars: As Low As One Can Go

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 - There are few places on Mars lower than this. The floor of Melas Chasma sinks nine kilometres below the surrounding plains. New images from the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsche Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) operated High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express orbiter highlight the complex history of this enormous martian canyon.

Oct 13, 2010