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Mars Daily Editorial Team

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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.

Opportunity Driving Again

Opportunity has resumed driving after engineers determined an acceptable new way to stow the robotic arm during drives.

Jan 23, 2006

Salty Expression (False Color)

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 23, 2006 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit spent the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend analyzing a remarkable exposure of bright, loose material. Spirit discovered the material while driving toward Home Plate along the floor of the basin south of Husband Hill in Gusev Crater.

Jan 23, 2006

Ancient Mega Asteroid Dusted Earth

Washington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2006 - Scientists think they have established a link between an ancient collision in the main asteroid belt and a layer of dust particles deposited on Earth from space soon thereafter. The findings could help identify similar events in the geological record and provide more clues about the history of the solar system.

Jan 20, 2006

Martian Snow Source of Tropical Glaciers, Research Team Reports

Snow is the source of glacial deposits found at the base of the majestic volcanoes and mountains dotting the mid-latitude and tropical regions of Mars.

Jan 20, 2006

Spirit At Arad

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 19, 2006 - Spirit is healthy and is driving as efficiently as possible toward Home Plate. On the way to Home Plate, Spirit stopped to look at Arad, where scientists encountered a cluster of white, powdery soil. Researchers decided to stop for a few days and use the robotic arm to conduct some measurements on it. Results are expected soon.

Jan 19, 2006

Festoons And Ferric Sulfate Salts Keep Rovers Occupied

Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 16, 2006 - Good stuff is happening on both sides of the planet. At Meridiani, the main source of excitement continues to be the festoons. The low-light imaging we've been doing is great for bringing this stuff out, and we've come to realize that it's present in a whole lot of the rocks around us.

Jan 16, 2006

Did Ice Not Water Carve Much Of Mars

Flagstaff - Jan. 17, 2001 - Some channels visible on the surface of Mars may have been gouged by ice, rather than by catastrophic flooding, as is generally believed.

Jan 9, 2006

Digging For Life On Mars

Pasadena - Sept. 16, 2000 - Find liquid water on Mars, and life may not be far behind. Many scientists believe that this water can only exist thousands of metres beneath the planet's surface.

Jan 9, 2006

Translife Mission Experiment Sees Mice Born at 25 RPM

Lakewood - Oct. 15, 2001 - It is with great pleasure that the Mars Society announces that Minnie, the female participant in the Mars Society's Translife Mission Coriolis force experiment, has given birth of a litter of approximately 6 healthy baby mice. The birth apparently took place over the weekend, with the youngsters first observed on the morning of October 15, 2001.

Jan 9, 2006

Interview with Nathalie Cabrol

Pasadena - Sol 4-A, 2004 - In this interview with Astrobiology Magazine's managing editor Henry Bortman, conducted just after NASA released the first high-resolution color picture of Gusev on January 6th, Nathalie Cabrol talks about her historic interest in the site and what stories she thinks Gusev Crater might have to tell about Mars.

Jan 9, 2006

It’s Location Location Location Say Three Teams Searching Gusev

Pasadena - Sol 6-A, 2004 - Within 24 hours after Pathfinder landed on Mars in 1997, NASA scientists had pinpointed its landing site. Spirit's story is a bit different. Spirit landed six days ago, but scientists are still struggling to figure out exactly where.

Jan 9, 2006

Keeping An Eye On The Rads

for NASA Science News - Alien planets have alien weather. Take Mars, for example. A morning weather report on the Red Planet might sound like this: Good morning, Martians! It looks like another solar storm heading our way. An X-class solar flare exploded this morning and proton counts have soared 1000-fold. More of the deadly particles are en route, so don't leave shelter today without your radiation suit!

Jan 9, 2006

Lady Luck Watches Over Mars Rovers

by Phil BerardelliScience & Technology Editor - The spectacular success of NASA's twin Mars rovers is due obviously to the skills and determination of the scientists and engineers involved in the mission, but luck also contributed to an amazing degree.

Jan 9, 2006

New Evidence Suggests Mars Has Been Cold and Dry

Denver - Oct. 31, 2000 - U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists studying Mars have discovered minerals with profound implications for the past history of the planet. The mineral olivine, an iron-magnesium silicate that weathers easily by water, has been found in abundance on Mars. The presence of olivine implies that chemical weathering by water is low on the planet and that Mars has been cold and dry throughout its geologic history.

Jan 9, 2006

Next Mars Odyssey Moves A Step Closer With Arrival At KSC

KSC - Jan. 5, 2001 - The first major step toward NASA's return of a spacecraft to an orbit around Mars was achieved late Thursday night, Jan. 4, when the Mars Odyssey spacecraft arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Jan 9, 2006

No Place To Hide From The Beagle

Paris (ESA) Sep 10, 2002 - Of all missions sent to Mars only one, the Viking 26 years ago, has dared to search for life. Its only conclusive result was that finding proof of extraterrestrial life proved to be much harder than expected. Second attempts never followed.

Jan 9, 2006