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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.

UK Space Agency Funds International Mars Rover

London, UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2010 - The UK Space Agency is announcing Pounds 10.5M for the development of instruments to search for signs of past or present life on Mars. The instruments are part of the scientific payload on the ExoMars rover to be launched in 2018 as part of a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and US space agency NASA. ExoMars is a flagship project in the UK Space Agency's science and exploration programme.

Jun 16, 2010

Opportunity Could Resume Driving Soon

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 15, 2010 - The pancam mast assembly (PMA) azimuth error from Sol 2257 (May 30, 2010), is still being resolved on Opportunity, although with a likely explanation in hand.

Jun 15, 2010

Ancient Ocean May Have Covered One-Third Of Mars

Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 15, 2010 - A vast ocean likely covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a new study conducted by University of Colorado at Boulder scientists.

Jun 15, 2010

A third of Mars once covered by ocean: study

Paris (AFP) June 13, 2010 - A huge, potentially life-giving sea likely covered more than a third of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a study released Sunday.

Jun 13, 2010

A New Model To Explain Absence of Organic Compounds On Mars Surface

New Rochelle NY (SPX) Jun 11, 2010 - The ongoing search for evidence of past or present life on Mars includes efforts to identify organic compounds such as proteins in Martian soil, but their absence to date remains a mystery. A new theory to explain what happens to these carbon-based molecules is presented in an article published in Astrobiology

Jun 11, 2010

Radar system tested for Mars rover landing

Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jun 11, 2010 - The U.S. space agency says it is testing a version of the radar system that will be used to land a new rover on Mars in August 2012.

Jun 11, 2010

Detailed Martian Scenes In New Images From Mars Orbiter

Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 10, 2010 - Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting telescopic camera include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges and steep cliffs.

Jun 10, 2010

Mapping Project Consistent With Huge Historic Seas On Mars

Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 09, 2010 - A geologic mapping project using NASA spacecraft data offers new evidence that expansive lakes existed long ago on Mars. The research points to a series of sedimentary deposits consistent with what would relate to large standing bodies of water in Hellas Planitia located in the southern hemisphere of Mars, said by Dr.Leslie Bleamaster, research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute.

Jun 9, 2010

Opportunity For Power Increase Comes With Passing Of Winter Solstice

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2010 - With the passing of the winter solstice and improving power, Opportunity continues to drive towards Endeavour crater.

Jun 9, 2010

Mars500 – Eighteen Months In Isolation

Cologne, Germany (SPX) Jun 09, 2010 - It resembles a cross between a Finnish sauna and an enlarged roof structure from the seventies - but this wood-panelled container with its dormer-style roof, in which six men are going to be living from 3 June in voluntary isolation for 17 months, is not intended to provide much by way of luxury.

Jun 9, 2010

Team Listens For Spirit

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 08, 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 8, 2010

Drilling Down Into Mars

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2010 - A catalogue of places on Earth where one can find Mars-like conditions might include Antarctica's Dry Valleys, Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic, the hyper-acidic Rio Tinto in Spain, and Chile's bone-dry Atacama Desert. But it probably wouldn't include Brooklyn.

Jun 8, 2010

Experts Say Life Could Survive On Mars

Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 07, 2010 - Researchers at McGill's department of natural resources, the National Research Council of Canada, the University of Toronto and the SETI Institute have discovered that methane-eating bacteria survive in a highly unique spring located on Axel Heiberg Island in Canada's extreme North.

Jun 7, 2010

Experts Say Life Could Survive On Mars

Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 07, 2010 - Researchers at McGill's department of natural resources, the National Research Council of Canada, the University of Toronto and the SETI Institute have discovered that methane-eating bacteria survive in a highly unique spring located on Axel Heiberg Island in Canada's extreme North.

Jun 7, 2010

18-Month Mars500 Mission Has Begun

Moscow, Russia (ESA) Jun 04, 2010 - Hatch closed: 18-month Mars500 mission has begun. Mars500, the first full-length simulated mission to Mars, started today in Moscow at 13:49 local time (11:49 CET), when the six-man crew entered their 'spacecraft' and the hatch was closed. The experiment will run until November next year.

Jun 4, 2010

ASU Instrument Helps Identify Rare Rock On Mars

Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 04, 2010 - It's amazing what cleaning your glasses can reveal. A mineral-scouting instrument developed at ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility has found an outcrop of rock rich in carbonate minerals in the Columbia Hills of Gusev Crater on Mars, according to a report published online June 3 in the journal Science. The instrument is onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.

Jun 4, 2010