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Mars Daily Editorial Team
Editorial Team

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.

Legacy Reports

Mars Express Studies Possible Aurorae Above Mars

Paris, France (SPX) Feb 20, 2006 - ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has seen more evidence that aurorae occur over the night side of Mars, especially over areas of the surface where variations in the magnetic properties of the crust have been detected. Observations from the ASPERA instrument on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft show structures (inverted-V features) of accelerated electrons and ions above the night side of Mars that are almost identical to those that occur above aurorae on Earth.

Feb 20, 2006
Legacy Reports

Spirit Makes It Four Miles At Home Plate

Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2006 - Over the Super Bowl weekend, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission controllers wrapped up all their work on a formation called Upper Overgaard. It was a struggle, but everything's done, it's all in focus, and we're ready to move on, said chief scientists Steve Squyres. With everything we wanted at Upper Overgaard in the can, we're now ready to move on to Roosevelt. Commands have been uplinked, and we'll see what we see next.

Feb 7, 2006