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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.

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

Year 2075: Martian rovers saved from cyber attack

Darmstadt, Germany (SPX) Oct 20, 2023 - The scene was set: a research base on the Red Planet was struck by a cyberattack and eight teams on Earth had just a matter of hours to save it. Far from being a farfetched scenario, cyberattacks ar

Oct 20, 2023

Rocket Lab Moves Into System Integration Phase for NASA’s Mars Mission

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 - Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has entered a crucial phase in its collaboration with NASA on the ESCAPADE mission, a project aiming to study Mars' hybrid magnetosphere. The company announced that the twin spa

Oct 19, 2023

Searching for concentrated biosignatures in an ancient, Martian mud lake

Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 19, 2023 - A landmark discovery by a collaborative team led by the Planetary Science Institute's Alexis Rodriguez has unveiled evidence of sedimentary plains created by aquifer drainage within Martian collapse

Oct 19, 2023

International team reveals source of largest ever Mars quake

Oxford UK (SPX) Oct 18, 2023 - A global team of scientists have announced the results of an unprecedented collaboration to search for the source of the largest ever seismic event recorded on Mars. The study, led by the University

Oct 18, 2023

Cliffhangers go by the name of ‘Stand By’ in Mission Ops: Sols 3980-3981

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 17, 2023 - Earth planning date: Monday, October 16, 2023: We are just at the first steps of the next drilling campaign, as regular readers of this blog will certainly have spotted already. The last plan had th

Oct 17, 2023

Taking a Rain Check: Sols 3977-3979

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 17, 2023 - Earth planning date: Friday, October 13, 2023: It's been an exciting week in space - Conor already mentioned the news from OSIRIS-REX on Wednesday and just before I logged on for my shift this morni

Oct 17, 2023

Eclipse on Earth, Exploration on Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 16, 2023 - On Saturday, October 14th, an annular eclipse will be visible across much of North, Central, and South America. Although Perseverance won't see this event from Mars, it's no stranger to Martian ecli

Oct 16, 2023

Preparing To Drill: Sols 3975-3976

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 13, 2023 - Earth planning date: Wednesday, October 11, 2023: Planning today started 90 minutes later than usual thanks to the data downlink containing the information we needed to assemble the plan not arrivin

Oct 13, 2023

Fly across Mars’s ‘labyrinth of night’ with Mars Express

Paris (ESA) Oct 12, 2023 - Nestled between the colossal martian 'Grand Canyon' (Valles Marineris) and the tallest volcanoes in the Solar System (the Tharsis region) lies Noctis Labyrinthus - a vast system of deep and steep va

Oct 12, 2023

Bumping to a Better Position: Sols 3973-3974

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 10, 2023 - Earth planning date: Monday, October 9, 2023: After the drive this weekend, Curiosity has arrived at another light-toned band that we hope to evaluate for drilling before solar conjunction begins ne

Oct 10, 2023

Light rocks on deck, gray rocks in the hole: Sols 3966-3697

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 04, 2023 - Earth planning date: Wednesday, October 2, 2023: HiRISE images of Gale crater show that Curiosity is driving through a section of layered rocks on Mt. Sharp, and the layers consist of alternating ba

Oct 4, 2023

NASA’s Perseverance captures dust-filled Martian whirlwind

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 01, 2023 - The six-wheeled geologist spotted the twister as part of an atmospheric exploration of Jezero Crater. The lower portion of a Martian dust devil was captured moving along the western rim of Mar

Oct 1, 2023

Double DRT for a Soliday: Sols 3964-3965:

Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2023 - Earth planning date: Friday, September 29, 2023: Welcome to another weekend in Gale crater, Mars! As Abigail Knight described in Wednesday's blog, we elected not to drive last plan while we waited f

Sep 29, 2023