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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 In Good Health And Continues To Drive

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2010 - Due to Odyssey's safing event none of the planned Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) downlink passes for this period occurred.

Jul 26, 2010

Orbiter Puts Itself Into Standby Safe Mode

Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2010 - NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Wednesday, July 14, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing careful steps designed to resume Odyssey's science and relay operations this week.

Jul 22, 2010

Video Camera Will Show Mars Rover’s Touchdown

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 20, 2010 - A downward-pointing camera on the front-left side of NASA's Curiosity rover will give adventure fans worldwide an unprecedented sense of riding a spacecraft to a landing on Mars.

Jul 20, 2010

Wind Cleans Solar Panels

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 19, 2010 - Opportunity's driving campaign toward Endeavour Crater has benefitted from a recent solar array dust-cleaning event.

Jul 19, 2010

Team Shows Unity During First Month Of Mars Flight Simulation

Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 16, 2010 - Six participants in the Mars-500 simulation of a manned mission to the Red Planet demonstrated team spirit and unity during the first month of the project, a Russian scientific institute that conducts the experiment said.

Jul 16, 2010

Mars Rover Curiosity Spins Its Wheels

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2010 - The wheels that will touch down on Mars in 2012 are several rotations closer to spinning on the rocky trails of Mars.

Jul 14, 2010

Microsoft And NASA Bring Mars Down To Earth Through The WorldWide Telescope

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2010 - Today, Microsoft Research and NASA are providing an entirely new experience to users of the WorldWide Telescope, which will allow visitors to interact with and explore our solar system like never before. Viewers can now take exclusive interactive tours of the red planet, hear directly from NASA scientists, and view and explore the most complete, highest-resolution coverage of Mars available.

Jul 13, 2010

Spirit Still Silent

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 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).

Jul 9, 2010

Opportunity Has Two More Drives

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2010 - Opportunity drove twice, tested the autonomous exploration for gathering increased science, or AEGIS software, and collected an atmospheric argon measurement over the past week.

Jul 9, 2010

Still Listening For Spirit

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 05, 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).

Jul 5, 2010

Next Mars Rover Sports A Set Of New Wheels

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 02, 2010 - NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, is sitting pretty on a set of spiffy new wheels that would be the envy of any car show on Earth.

Jul 2, 2010

Opportunity To See More Detail At Crater Destination

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 30, 2010 - Mars rover team members have begun informally naming features around the rim of Endeavour Crater, as they develop plans to investigate that destination when NASA's Opportunity rover arrives there after many more months of driving.

Jun 30, 2010

Spirit Standing By At Troy

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 29, 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).

Jun 29, 2010

NASA Instrument Will Identify Clues To Martian Past

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 29, 2010 - NASA's Curiosity rover, coming together for a late 2011 launch to Mars, has a newly installed component: a key onboard X-ray instrument for helping the mission achieve its goals. Researchers will use Curiosity in an intriguing area of Mars to search for modern or ancient habitable environments, including any that may have also been favorable for preserving clues about life and environment.

Jun 29, 2010

Rocky Mounds And A Plateau On Mars

Paris, France (ESA) Jun 29, 2010 - When Mars Express set sail for the crater named after Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, it found a windblown plateau and mysterious rocky mounds nearby.

Jun 29, 2010

Wet Era On Early Mars Was Global

Paris, France (SPX) Jun 28, 2010 - Conditions favourable to life may once have existed all over Mars. Detailed studies of minerals found inside craters show that liquid water was widespread, not only in the southern highlands, but also beneath the northern plains.

Jun 28, 2010