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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.

Cruising to the Contact: Sols 3921-3922

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 16, 2023 - Earth planning date: Wednesday, August 16, 2023: Curiosity had a successful drive on Monday and is now positioned at the transition between lighter and darker-toned materials with a myriad of exciti

Aug 16, 2023

Enjoying the Climb: Sols 3916-3918

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2023 - Earth planning date: Friday, August 11, 2023: In this weekend's plan, Curiosity is behaving much as you would as you climb a mountain. You pause occasionally to look around at what lies beneath your

Aug 15, 2023

Phoenix’s Red Planet Selfie

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 11, 2023 - NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander gathered images of itself for this selfie from June 5 through July 12, 2008, with its Surface Stereo Imager (SSI). This mosaic is made up of more than 100 different SSI po

Aug 11, 2023

New insights into the potential for early steps of biological evolution on Mars

Bloomington IN (SPX) Aug 11, 2023 - That the planet Mars had habitable surface environments early in its existence has been firmly established by the scientific community. These environments provided water, energy sources, elements li

Aug 11, 2023

Mars exploration reveals evidence of life-conducive environment

Paris, France (SPX) Aug 11, 2023 - Mars, often dubbed the 'Red Planet', has long been a focal point for scientists in the quest to uncover extraterrestrial life. Unlike Earth, Mars' surface is not subjected to the perpetual shifting

Aug 11, 2023

Engineers put a Mars lander legs to the test

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 11, 2023 - Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on the Red Planet. NASA's Perseverance rover continues to rack up tubes filled with rock core samples for th

Aug 11, 2023

Cracks in ancient Martian mud surprise Curiosity team

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 11, 2023 - A new paper suggests the same conditions that created the cracks could have been favorable to the emergence of microscopic life. Scientists aren't entirely sure how life began on Earth, but one prev

Aug 11, 2023

Organic molecules in Martian crater help to reconstruct planet’s history

London, UK (SPX) Aug 09, 2023 - NASA's Perseverance rover may have discovered organic molecules on the surface of Mars. While they don't prove the existence of alien life, they add further evidence that Mars has a much more comple

Aug 9, 2023

Mars once had wet-dry climate conducive to supporting life: study

Paris (AFP) Aug 9, 2023 - NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered the first evidence that Mars once had a climate which alternated between wet and dry seasons similar to Earth, a study said on Wednesday, suggesting the red planet may have once had the right conditions to support life.

Aug 9, 2023

The Dragon’s Egg Too Tough To Crack

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 08, 2023 - Perseverance spent this week on Mars roving across the top of the Jezero fan- from Mount Meeker to Dream Lake- in search of yet another sample for return to Earth. This upper region known as Lobe K

Aug 8, 2023

Ingenuity flies again after unscheduled landing

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 08, 2023 - The helicopter performed a short hop to help the team better understand why its previous flight was interrupted. NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed its 54th flight on Aug.

Aug 8, 2023

Blazing a path to the Gediz Vallis Ridge: Sols 3914-3915

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 08, 2023 - Earth planning date: Wednesday August 8, 2023: Curiosity continues her steady winter drive through the Kalavryta quadrangle with her sights set on the Gediz Vallis ridge ahead! Behind her, Curiosity

Aug 8, 2023

InSight study finds Mars is spinning faster

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 08, 2023 - Data sent by the spacecraft before it retired last December has provided new details about how fast the planet rotates and how much it wobbles. Scientists have made the most precise measurements eve

Aug 8, 2023

Unraveling river pathways on Earth and Mars

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2023 - In a groundbreaking analysis, scientists from Tulane University have delved deep into the winding paths of rivers on both Earth and Mars. This study, recently published in Nature Geosciences, aims t

Aug 6, 2023

A frosty anniversary weekend for Curiosity: Sols 3909-3911

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 04, 2023 - Earth planning date: Friday August 4, 2023: We're planning a special weekend today - Saturday is the 11th (Earth) anniversary of Curiosity's landing! I was newly graduated from high school when I wa

Aug 4, 2023

Daily records of atmospheric temperature with Perseverance

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 04, 2023 - Atmospheric temperature is a meteorological variable of daily concern to humans. Temperature also has a major impact on Perseverance mission operations (e.g. temperature sensors are distributed thro

Aug 4, 2023