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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.

Cerberus Fossae Identified as Primary Source of Marsquakes

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 09, 2023 - The Mars InSight mission, since its inception, has shed light on the seismic vibrancy of the Red Planet. The mission's deployment of a seismic station has led to the recording of 98 low-frequency se

Nov 9, 2023

The Ones Who Make Curiosity Go: Sols 4001-4003

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 08, 2023 - Earth planning date: Monday, November 6: It is a time of milestones for Curiosity, with the passage of Sol 4000 over the weekend (celebrated here and here) and the start of her sixth solar conjuncti

Nov 8, 2023

Curiosity rover clocks 4,000 sols on Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 07, 2023 - Four thousand Martian days after setting its wheels in Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover remains busy conducting exciting science. The rover recently drilled its 39th sample then d

Nov 7, 2023

Mars Climate Sounder data reveals new cloud trends, study shows

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 02, 2023 - In a groundbreaking collaborative effort, a new study drawing on the collective efforts of citizen scientists has shed light on the intricate patterns of Martian clouds. The research, fueled by cont

Nov 2, 2023

Estimating depositional timing on Mars using cosmogenic radionuclide data

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 02, 2023 - As Perseverance continues to wrap up its current activities at Turquoise Bay where it collected a new sample for possible return to Earth, the Mars 2020 team is getting ready for Perseverance to app

Nov 2, 2023

Bewitched Battery: Sols 3994-3995

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 01, 2023 - Earth planning date: Monday, October 30, 2023: Mondays are scary enough, so the team was extra spooked when the morning's downlink showed our incoming power state as lower than what we planned. Ghos

Nov 1, 2023

Scientists discover molten layer covering Martian core

College Park MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2023 - NASA's InSight mission to Mars helped scientists map out Mars' internal structure, including the size and composition of its core, and provided general hints about its tumultuous formation. Bu

Oct 31, 2023

NASA is locating ice on Mars with this new map

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 30, 2023 - Buried ice will be a vital resource for the first people to set foot on Mars, serving as drinking water and a key ingredient for rocket fuel. But it would also be a major scientific target: Astronau

Oct 30, 2023

Ascending Fang Turret: Sols 3991-3993

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 27, 2023 - The Curiosity rover team has been preparing for the start of the Solar Conjunction in November, when contact with all Mars spacecraft will be impossible for three weeks since Mars will be behind the

Oct 27, 2023

Mystery of the Martian core solved

Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 26, 2023 - For four years, NASA's InSight lander recorded tremors on Mars with its seismometer. Researchers at ETH Zurich collected and analysed the data transmitted to Earth to determine the planet's internal

Oct 26, 2023

Sampling unique bedrock at the margin unit

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 26, 2023 - The Mars 2020 team has been exploring a new area of the Margin Unit at Jezero Crater, where distinct carbonate signatures have been observed from orbit. Importantly, carbonates that form in rocks ca

Oct 26, 2023

Curiosity rover finds new evidence of ancient Mars rivers, a key signal for life

University Park PA (SPX) Oct 25, 2023 - New analysis of data from the Curiosity rover reveals that much of the craters on Mars today could have once been habitable rivers. We're finding evidence that Mars was likely a planet of riv

Oct 25, 2023

Short but Sweet; Sols 3987-3988

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 25, 2023 - Earth planning date: Monday, October 23, 2023: Over the weekend, the activity to prepare SAM to receive and analyze the Sequoia drill sample did not quite go as planned, so we had to rearrange tod

Oct 25, 2023

Mouse mummies point to mammalian life in Mars-like Andes

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2023 - The dry, wind-swept summits of volcanoes in the Puna de Atacama of Chile and Argentina are the closest thing on Earth to the surface of Mars due to their thin atmosphere and freezing temperatures. A

Oct 24, 2023

Sampling Sequoia: Sols 3984-3986

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2023 - Earth planning date: Friday, October 20, 2023: The highest priority in this weekend's 3-sol plan is the SAM preconditioning activity. This is in anticipation of a SAM evolved gas analysis (EGA) of t

Oct 23, 2023

Welcome to the Drillhole Family, ‘Sequoia’: Sols 3982-3983: Welcome

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 20, 2023 - Earth planning date: Wednesday, October 18, 2023: The target 'Sequoia' has been successfully drilled! The image today is one of my favourites - the shadow of the rover mast, and the perfectly drille

Oct 20, 2023