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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.

Observing The Outcrops

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 14, 2005 - Opportunity is healthy and is observing outcrops of Erebus Crater. The rover used the tools on its robotic arm to examine an outcrop area named Olympia.

Nov 14, 2005

Spirit Coordinating With Hubble

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 14, 2005 - Spirit is healthy. The rover is out of restricted sols and has been making excellent progress. On sol 655, Spirit drove 94.5 meters (310 feet)! The total drive distance from sol 655 to sol 659 was 126 meters (413 feet).

Nov 14, 2005

Meet The First Woman To Drive On Mars!

Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Nov 11, 2005 - If it weren't for severe motion sickness, Dr. Ashley Stroupe might already have several space shuttle flights under her belt. The child of a NASA engineer, Stroupe devoured all things space-related during her childhood.

Nov 11, 2005

Simulations Show Liquid Water Could Exist on Mars

Fayetteville AK (SPX) Nov 10, 2005 - University of Arkansas researchers have become the first scientists to show that liquid water could exist for considerable times on the surface of Mars.

Nov 10, 2005

Spirit’s ‘Everest’ Panorama Animation

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 09, 2005 - If a human with perfect vision donned a spacesuit and stepped onto the martian surface, the view would be as clear as this sweeping panorama taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. That's because the rover's panoramic camera has the equivalent of 20-20 vision.

Nov 9, 2005

Spirit Busy With Imaging

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 09, 2005 - Sprit is healthy. The team operated in restricted sols from sol 647 to 654. (Restricted sols occur when the timing of the communications pass from the Odyssey orbiter is too late in the day to gather vital location and health information about the rover after it executed recent commands.

Nov 9, 2005

Opportunity Dusts Off And Gets Back To Work

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 07, 2005 - Having weathered a recent dust storm, Opportunity is back to business. Energy levels are on the rise as the rover prepares for its next investigative campaign.

Nov 7, 2005

Work Bolsters Life On Mars Theories

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2005 - A Keck School scientist and his collaborators are the first to find methane-producing bacteria in arid desert soils, providing a springboard for future experiments on the distant planet.

Nov 4, 2005

Mars Kicks Up The Dust As It Makes Closest Approach To Earth

Baltimore MD (SPX) Nov 04, 2005 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this picture of Mars on October 28, within a day of its closest approach to Earth on the night of October 29. The large regional dust storm appears as the brighter, redder cloudy region in the middle of the planet's disk.

Nov 4, 2005

A Dusty Weekend For Opportunity

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 03, 2005 - The three-sol plan for Opportunity's sols 627 to 629 (Oct. 29 to 31, 2005) began well, with a drive of 51 meters (164 feet) on the first sol. To allow as much time as possible for driving on that sol, the rover's usual post-drive imaging from its new location had been planned for the following sol.

Nov 3, 2005

Mars Express PFS Spectrometer Back At Work

Paris (ESA) Nov 03, 2005 - The Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft is now back in operation after a malfunction, reported a few months ago.

Nov 3, 2005

Riding Ripples And Working Issues

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 02, 2005 - Opportunity is healthy and traversing around the northwest side of Erebus Crater. The rover has driven on every sol possible, acquiring during and after each drive, and surveying the sky and horizon in the mornings with the panoramic camera.

Nov 2, 2005

Methane Found In Desert Soils Bolsters Theories That Life Could Exist On Mars

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2005 - Evidence of methane-producing organisms can be found in inhospitable soil environments much like those found on the surface of Mars, according to experiments undertaken by scientists and students from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and the University of Arkansas and published online in the journal Icarus.

Nov 1, 2005

Managing Murphy’s Law on Mars

Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 31, 2005 - This is it: the moment of truth. The spacecraft door has just clanged shut behind you, locking you and your fellow astronauts into the small cabin that will be your home for the next half-year's journey through interplanetary space - at the end of which you personally will be the first human to set foot on Mars.

Oct 31, 2005

Spirit In Kansas

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 31, 2005 - Spirit drove to an outcrop informally named Kansas to prepare for a series of robotic arm activities on a target called Kestrel.

Oct 31, 2005

Chamber Helps To Reproduce Conditions On Mars

Greenville IN (SPX) Oct 28, 2005 - A little bit of mars has landed at SHOT, and it's open for business. Developed with support from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC), the SHOT Martian Environment Simulator faithfully recreates the atmosphere, temperature and light spectrum found on the red planet.

Oct 28, 2005