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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 Stops To Check Out Rocks

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 27, 2010 - Opportunity has paused in her trek toward Endeavour crater to examine an exposed outcrop of rock that is of interest to the science team.

Aug 27, 2010

The Mutating Mars Hoax

Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 26, 2010 - It spreads, it mutates, it refuses to die. For the seventh year in a row, the Mars Hoax is infecting email boxes around the world. Passed from one reader to another, the message states that on August 27th Mars will approach Earth and swell to the size of a full Moon. NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN, the email declares--always in caps.

Aug 26, 2010

NASA’s Marks 35th Anniversary Of Mars Viking Mission

Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2010 - Mars. Roman god of war. The Red Planet. From the perennial Mars hoax to Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, no other body in our solar system has so captured the human imagination. Throughout history mankind has gazed into the night sky wondering what civilizations awaited those who landed on the Red Planet's surface. The novels of Burroughs and others tout the planet's allure and films have warned humanity of its dangers.

Aug 23, 2010

Mud Volcanoes On Mars

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2010 - If life does - or did - exist on Mars, signs of such life might well be found in a region in the northern plains called Acidalia Planitia, according to a new study.

Aug 20, 2010

Martian ‘mud’ volcanoes eyed for life

Washington (UPI) Aug 19, 2010 - Researchers say if life existed on Mars, the best place to look today is a region rich in what they say were mud volcanoes spewing sediment from underground.

Aug 19, 2010

Trip to Mars could leave crew dangerously weak – study

Paris (AFP) Aug 18, 2010 - If a human ever sets foot on Mars, will it be a giant step or an exhausted shuffle?

Aug 18, 2010

Opportunity Drives Five Times This Week

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 16, 2010 - Opportunity drove five times in the past week, crossing 22 kilometers (13.67 miles) of total odometry.

Aug 16, 2010

Spirit In Sweep And Beep Mode

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 09, 2010 - Spirit remains silent at her location called Troy on the west side of Home Plate. No communication has been received from the rover since Sol 2210 (March 22, 2010).

Aug 9, 2010

Opportunity Performs Science And Rolls To Endeavour Crater

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 09, 2010 - Opportunity took advantage of some exposed rock outcrop to perform an in-situ (contact) science campaign to sample the surface at roughly one-kilometer (0.62-mile) intervals.

Aug 9, 2010

UA-Operated Stereo Camera Selected For Mars Mission

Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 05, 2010 - NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and have selected five science instruments - including one from the University of Arizona - for the first mission.

Aug 5, 2010

Hundreds Of New Views From Telescope Orbiting Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 05, 2010 - The latest set of new images from the telescopic High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter offers detailed views of diverse Martian landscapes.

Aug 5, 2010

New Project Manager For Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 05, 2010 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a new project manager: Phil Varghese, who has managed another veteran NASA Mars mission - the Mars Odyssey orbiter - since 2004. Varghese has worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., since 1989.

Aug 5, 2010

Caltech And CSA Awarded NASA Project To Develop Spectrometer Headed To Mars

Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2010 - The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has announced that they will be partnering on the development of the Mars Atmospheric Trace Molecule Occultation Spectrometer (MATMOS) instrument to be flown aboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter when it launches in 2016.

Aug 3, 2010

NASA And ESA’s First Joint Mission To Mars Selects Instruments

Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2010 - NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and selected the five science instruments for the first mission.

Aug 3, 2010

Spirit May Never Phone Home Again

Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 02, 2010 - NASA mission controllers have not heard from Mars rover Spirit since March 22 as the rover faces its toughest challenge yet - trying to survive the harsh Martian winter.

Aug 2, 2010

Opportunity Back To Normal Operations

Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 02, 2010 - Opportunity's activities were impacted by the Odyssey spacecraft safe-mode event. However, with the recovery of Odyssey, normal operations with the rover have resumed.

Aug 2, 2010