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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.

Greening The Moon And Mars

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2010 - Future manned missions to the Moon or Mars could use plants as bio-harvesters to extract valuable elements from the alien soils, researchers say.

Jul 30, 2010

Martian Dust Devil Whirls Into Opportunity’s View

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 30, 2010 - In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic searches in past years and the fact that its twin rover, Spirit, has seen dozens of dust devils at its location halfway around the planet.

Jul 30, 2010

Rocks On Mars May Provide Link To Evidence Of Living Organisms Roughly 4 Billion Years Ago

London, UK (SPX) Jul 30, 2010 - A new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The findings may provide a link to evidence of living organisms on Mars, roughly 4 billion years ago in the Noachian period.

Jul 30, 2010

DLR Investigates The Existence Of Liquid Salt Solutions On Mars

Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 29, 2010 - Is it possible that there are salt solutions on Mars that remain liquid despite the extremely low temperatures - a class of fluids known as cryobrines? Research findings at the German Aerospace Center have shown that this is a theoretical possibility.

Jul 29, 2010

Curiosity Rover Grows By Leaps And Bounds

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2010 - Talk about a growth-spurt. In one week, Curiosity grew by approximately 1 meter (3.5 feet) when spacecraft technicians and engineers attached the rover's neck and head (called the Remote Sensing Mast) to its body. At around 2 meters (about 7 feet) tall, the next rover to Mars now stands head and shoulders above the rest.

Jul 26, 2010

NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map Ever

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2010 - A camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the map via several websites and explore and survey the entire surface of the Red Planet.

Jul 26, 2010

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