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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.

Energy Levels Reach Record Low For Fading Spirit Of Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 03, 2008 - Energy production reached a record low for Spirit this past week. On Sol 1560 (May 23, 2008), solar array input was 220 watt-hours (enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for two hours and 12 minutes). On sol 1563, Spirit expended the highest amount of energy yet on running heaters to maintain minimum temperatures for batteries (30.6 watt-hours) and the miniature thermal emission spectrometer (54.0 watt-hours).

Jun 3, 2008

Phoenix Scoops Up Some Martian Soil

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 02, 2008 - One week after landing on far-northern Mars, NASA Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of the lander's Robotic Arm.

Jun 2, 2008

Mars probe Phoenix flexes robotic arm

Washington (AFP) May 29, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix Mars lander flexed its robotic arm Thursday in a successful test of the key element in the probe's mission to investigate the Red Planet's soil for conditions conducive to life, NASA said.

May 29, 2008

Phoenix Spacecraft Commanded To Unstow Arm

Tucson (LPL) May 29, 2008 - Scientists leading NASA's Phoenix Mars mission from the University of Arizona in Tucson sent commands to unstow its robotic arm and take more images of its landing site early today.

May 29, 2008

Listen To Phoenix Descend To The Surface Of Mars

Paris, France (ESA) May 29, 2008 - With data recorded on board Mars Express, you can hear Phoenix descend on to the surface of the Red Planet. After being processed by the Mars Express Flight Control Team, the sounds of Phoenix descending are audible, loud and clear.

May 29, 2008

Phoenix Coming Into View

Tucson AZ (SPX) May 29, 2008 - The Phoenix lander sent back new sharp color images from Mars late yesterday. Phoenix imaging scientists made a color mosaic of images taken by the lander's Surface Stereo Imager on landing day, May 25, and the first two full sols, or martian days, after landing.

May 29, 2008

NASA Mars Lander Prepares To Move Arm

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 28, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix Lander is ready to begin moving its robotic arm, first unlatching its wrist and then flexing its elbow.

May 28, 2008

Lockheed Martin-Built Phoenix Spacecraft Successfully Lands on Mars

Denver CO (SPX) May 27, 2008 - NASA has a new spacecraft operating on the surface of Mars. Late Sunday afternoon, the Phoenix Mars Lander, built by Lockheed Martin, navigated a dramatic blazing descent through the planet's atmosphere, positioning Phoenix to dig down and touch the planet's subsurface ice.

May 27, 2008

Mars Cold Goes Down Deep

Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 27, 2008 - New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought.

May 27, 2008

NASA restores radio contact with Phoenix Mars lander

Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008 - NASA has cleared up a malfunction that for several hours caused a rupture in communications between Phoenix Mars Lander, the US space agency said Wednesday.

May 27, 2008

Radio glitch hinders Mars lander mission

Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008 - A communications glitch between the Phoenix Mars probe and Earth has delayed operations, two days after the spacecraft landed on the Red Planet in search of conditions to support life, NASA said Tuesday.

May 27, 2008

The Radar SHARAD Completes The Mars Stratigraphy

Rome, Italy (SPX) May 26, 2008 - The radar sounder SHARAD of the NASA mission Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images of the Mars North Pole stratigraphy.

May 26, 2008

Camera On Mars Orbiter Snaps Phoenix During Landing

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2008 - A telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25.

May 26, 2008

Phoenix Spacecraft Reports Good Health After Mars Landing

Pasadena CA (SPX) May 26, 2008 - A NASA spacecraft today sent pictures showing itself in good condition after making the first successful landing in a polar region of Mars. The images from NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander also provided a glimpse of the flat valley floor expected to have water-rich permafrost within reach of the lander's robotic arm.

May 26, 2008

NASA probe sends first pictures from Martian arctic

Washington (AFP) May 26, 2008 - A NASA probe sent back never-before-seen pictures of Mars' north pole Monday, in the most ambitious mission to date to find life-sustaining minerals on the Red Planet.

May 26, 2008

Phoenix Set To Rise Tomorrow For A Busy 90 Days On Mars

Tucson AZ (SPX) May 26, 2008 - NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm.

May 26, 2008