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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 Entering Cobble Field

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 19, 2005 - Opportunity had a busy week! The rover has been using the rock abrasion tool and all of its spectrometers and imaging instruments. It has been healthy but slightly constrained in the flash memory.

Aug 19, 2005

Spirit Approaches Husband Hill Summit

Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2005 - Just a quick one today. We had a great drive with Spirit on Sol 576, and we're now approaching the summit region of Husband Hill.

Aug 18, 2005

Spirit Continues To Climb

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 17, 2005 - Spirit has completed investigations with its robotic arm on Assemblee rock. The investigation included pictures taken with the microscopic imager, 92 hours of Moessbauer spectrometer integration, and alpha particle X-ray spectrometer work on the target Gruyere.

Aug 17, 2005

Opportunity Parks Itself In Front Of A Field Of Cobbles

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2005 - After months of being the other rover as she struggled across some pretty barren plains of sand and blueberries, Opportunity has again taken center stage. One of the things we've been wondering about for awhile was whether the blueberries are the same everywhere, or whether they change from place to place if you travel far enough.

Aug 15, 2005

Powerful Mineral Mapper Headed To Mars

Laurel MD (SPX) Aug 15, 2005 - With Friday's launch of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars ¿ or CRISM ¿ joins the set of high-tech detectives seeking traces of water on the red planet.

Aug 15, 2005

NASA’s Multipurpose Mars Mission Successfully Launched

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 15, 2005 - A seven-month flight to Mars began last Friday morning for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). It will inspect the red planet in fine detail and assist future landers.

Aug 15, 2005

Water And Mars: The ‘Magic Triangle’ For Life

Paris (AFP) Aug 12, 2005 - Scientists will be thrilled by any data the new US mission to Mars gets that point to abundant water on Mars even if, at present, we only know it to be ice rather than liquid and located at the poles.

Aug 12, 2005

Crackling Planets

Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 11, 2005 - Have you ever walked across a wool carpet in leather-soled shoes on a dry winter day, and then reached out toward a doorknob? ZAP! A stinging spark leaps between your fingers and the metal knob.

Aug 11, 2005

Technical Problems Force New Delay In Mars Rocket Launch

Cape Canaveral (AFP) Aug 11, 2005 - NASA on Thursday delayed the launch of a new Mars orbiter for the second time in two days because of problems with the Atlas V rocket that is to take it on the 25 month mission.

Aug 11, 2005

NASA’s Next Leap In Mars Exploration Ready For Launch

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 10, 2005 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is ready for a morning launch on Thursday, Aug. 11. The spacecraft will arrive at Mars in March 2006 for a mission to understand the planet's water riddles and to advance the exploration of the mysterious red planet.

Aug 10, 2005

Spirit 100 Meters From The Top

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 10, 2005 - Spirit has been busy performing investigations with the tools on its robotic arm. It studied two targets on the rock dubbed Bourgeoisie, and did a small bump to Hausmann to take some microscopic images.

Aug 10, 2005

Opportunity On An Ice-Cream-Cone Outcrop

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 10, 2005 - Opportunity continues to make progress south toward Erebus crater. The rover planners are doing an excellent job keeping Opportunity safely within the confines of the ripple troughs and determining where the rover can cross from one ripple trough into another.

Aug 10, 2005

Mars, The Blue Ecosynthesis

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2005 - Terraforming was once solely the province of science fiction. In the 1930s, Olaf Stapledon wrote of electrolyzing a global sea on Venus in order to prepare it for human habitation in Last and First Men. Jack Williamson coined the term terraforming in the 1940s in a series of short stories.

Aug 9, 2005

Latest US Mars Mission Plans Most Detailed Views Of Red Planet Yet Seen

Washington DC (SPX) Aug 09, 2005 - The next American mission to Mars is set to launch from Florida soon to examine the red planet in the sharpest detail, yet.

Aug 9, 2005

Five Easy Pieces – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2005 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, set to launch on August 10, will search for evidence that liquid water once persisted on the surface of Mars. This orbiter also will provide detailed surveys of the planet, identifying any obstacles that could jeopardize the safety of future landers and rovers.

Aug 9, 2005

Ball Aerospace High Resolution Camera To Launch On Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 09, 2005 - NASA's next journey to Mars, scheduled to launch August 10 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, will include an advanced camera built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies for the University of Arizona.

Aug 9, 2005