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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.

Martian Fire And Ice

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2005 - Shifting glaciers and exploding volcanoes aren't confined to Mars' distant past, according to two new reports in the journal Nature.

Mar 23, 2005

Busy With The Robotic Arm

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 22, 2005 - After some accumulated dust was blown off of Spirit's solar panels on sol 420 (March 9, 2005), the rover has been producing over 800 watt-hours of energy per sol, about twice as much as before the solar-array cleaning event.

Mar 22, 2005

Hourglass Shaped Craters Filled With Traces Of Glaciers

Paris, France (SPX) Mar 20, 2005 - This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows flow features most likely formed by glaciers or block glaciers.

Mar 20, 2005

Opportunity Rover By Buried Vostok Crater

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 18, 2005 - After a long, sustained series of traverses (with a few stops along the way to see the sights) Opportunity has reached Vostok Crater. The rover began a set of in-situ measurements on the soil and rock of Vostok.

Mar 18, 2005

Fire And Ice: Mars Images Reveal Recent Volcanic And Glacial Activity

Providence RI (SPX) Mar 17, 2005 - Shifting glaciers and exploding volcanoes aren't confined to Mars' distant past, according two new reports in the journal Nature.

Mar 17, 2005

Tests Planned for Instrument on Mars Rover

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2005 - NASA has suspended use of one of the mineral-identifying tools on the Opportunity Mars rover while experts troubleshoot a problem with getting data from the instrument, the robot's miniature thermal emission spectrometer.

Mar 17, 2005

Examining A Little Crater Before Moving On Toward Vostok

Pasadena CA (JPL) (SPX) Mar 16, 2005 - Opportunity took some time away from driving and explored a little crater it approached last week. Once the rover is done with the crater, plans call for continuing toward a larger crater, Vostok.

Mar 16, 2005

Frozen Lake Found On Mars, May Have Preserved Primitive Life: Scientists

Paris (AFP) Mar 16, 2005 - Claims that life, or the potential for it, exists on Mars were boosted last Wednesday when scientists declared they saw the remains of a frozen sea on the planet's surface and speculated the ice may hold preserved organisms.

Mar 16, 2005

High Winds Make Spirit Full of Energy

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 15, 2005 - Spirit is in good health and is successfully using a new version of flight software. After completing an investigation of a rock dubbed Watchtower, Spirit is returning to a soil area of interest informally labeled Paso Robles.

Mar 15, 2005

The Martian Frozen Sea

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2005 - At the recent European Space Agency's Mars Express conference, scientists announced they had found a frozen sea on the martian equator. John Murray, from the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University in the UK, is lead author on the paper to be published in the journal Nature. Astrobiology Magazine editor Leslie Mullen sat down with Murray to discuss the new finding.

Mar 15, 2005

Spirit Gets its Animated Surprise

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2005 - Mars is often enveloped by planet-wide dust storms - their biting winds choke the air and scour the arid surface. Tornado-like dust devils dance across the planet so frequently that their numerous tracks crisscross each other, tracing convoluted designs in the red soil.

Mar 15, 2005

Going To Mars In Earth Orbit

Washington (UPI) March 09, 2005 - Many Americans have questioned repeatedly the usefulness of the International Space Station, but it stands as NASA's only gateway at the moment to the rest of the solar system. Without the station - or something comparable - it will be difficult if not impossible for U.S. engineers and scientists to do the research necessary to make interplanetary travel possible.

Mar 9, 2005

Opportunity Continues South with New Mobility Software

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 09, 2005 - After a busy week of driving with new mobility software, Opportunity continues to be in excellent health. The rover has traveled 450 meters (just over a quarter of a mile) in 6 sols.

Mar 9, 2005

Search For A Second Genesis On Mars

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2005 - Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at the Ames Research Center, has long been investigating the coldest and driest places on Earth. These harsh environments - and the ability of life to adapt there - could point the way to finding life on Mars.

Mar 9, 2005

Spirit Perched At Larry’s Lookout

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 08, 2005 - Spirit's focus on sols 408 through 412 was the spectacular panorama from Larry's Lookout. After completing that 4-sol effort, Spirit rolled to a nearby rock target called Watchtower and began examining it with tools on the robotic arm.

Mar 8, 2005

Is Mars’ Ring Around The Collar An Ancient Receding Glacier?

Los Angeles (SPX) Mar 03, 2005 - In 1999 I sent SpaceDaily, and other media, information from a 1998 informal study I did of some Mars Global Surveyor images of the northern hemisphere of Mars. The first image I found was suggestive of an icy cracked terrain similar in appearance to images returned of the surface of Europa.

Mar 3, 2005