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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.

Not Again, Mars: Sols 3868-3870

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2023 - Today we started planning at a location short of our intended drive end position. Mars has, once again, not read our script! Regular readers of this blog will have noticed lately that many reports s

Jun 23, 2023

MAVEN stuns with ultraviolet views of Mars

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 23, 2023 - NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission acquired stunning views of Mars in two ultraviolet images taken at different points along our neighboring planet's orbit around the Sun.

Jun 23, 2023

Touch and Go: Sol 3865

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 22, 2023 - Earth planning date: Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Curiosity is currently trekking east along a small detour due to recent challenges on steep, rocky, sandy terrain. Today we planned 1 sol known as a 'Tou

Jun 22, 2023

Persevering across the upper fan in search of record-keeping rocks

Gainesville FL (SPX) Jun 22, 2023 - Sampling Martian rocks requires persistence! Right now, Perseverance is on the hunt for a conglomerate rock to sample for return to Earth - a task that is proving to be challenging. Two attempts wer

Jun 22, 2023

Welcome to Kalavryta: Sols 3866-3867

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 21, 2023 - Time, it never seems to pass at a constant rate. Today is summer solstice here in the northern hemisphere on Earth; the longest day of the year. It was only fitting time was at the forefront of pl

Jun 21, 2023

Rover on the home stretch to the Martian moon Phobos

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 21, 2023 - The origin of the martian moons Phobos and Deimos is still an unsolved mystery in planetary research. Both moons will be the targets of the Japanese Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission. A German

Jun 21, 2023

Continuing along the alternate route: Sols 3861-3864

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 21, 2023 - Earth planning date: Friday, June 16, 2023 Hearing today's drive completed as planned for the third time in a row was a refreshing change from last week when Curiosity was struggling to get up a roc

Jun 21, 2023

It easier ever view Mars landscapes in high resolution

Washington DC (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 - There is a huge difference between looking at a photo of the Grand Canyon and seeing it in person. If you want to look at another planet's landscape, seeing it in person is not an option. That's why

Jun 15, 2023

Curiosity captures Morning and Afternoon on Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 14, 2023 - After completing a major software update in April, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took a last look at Marker Band Valley before leaving it behind, capturing a postcard of the scene. The postc

Jun 14, 2023

Up and Over – Curiosity Is Heading East: Sol 3857

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 14, 2023 - Earth planning date: Monday, June 12, 2023. Curiosity has been diligently driving uphill through a canyon but the terrain right near the crest has proven to be challenging due to a combination of st

Jun 14, 2023

A Geologist in a Rock Shop: Sols 3859-3860

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 14, 2023 - It appears that Curiosity's recent traverse has turned a new leaf as this is the second successful drive after lots of slipping and sliding. The new workspace is full of goodies for us to target and

Jun 14, 2023

Artificial photosynthesis for real oxygen

Paris (ESA) Jun 12, 2023 - On Earth our varied and abundant species of plants produce all the life-giving oxygen we need to breathe, but when we venture outside of our world such as on the International Space Station or the M

Jun 12, 2023

How NASA gives a name to every spot it studies on Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2023 - NASA's Perseverance rover is currently investigating rock outcrops alongside the rim of Mars' Belva Crater. Some 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) away, NASA's Curiosity rover recently drilled a sample

Jun 9, 2023

Science and sampling attempts at the Onahu Outcrop

Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 09, 2023 - Recently on Mars, Perseverance wrestled with sampling a crumbly rock and continued our boulder-bonanza! We've been exploring the Onahu outcrop for the past 3 weeks, having previously performed

Jun 9, 2023

Time To Try a New Route: Sols 3853-3856

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2023 - This blog covers two planning shifts this week, June 7 and Friday, June 9, 2023, for a total of four sols of activities. Curiosity has been trying to work her way to the top of a canyon towards an i

Jun 9, 2023

First Mars livestream: the movie

Paris (ESA) Jun 08, 2023 - To celebrate the 20th birthday of ESA's Mars Express on 2 June, and after months of work from engineers and scientists to make it possible, ESA aired the first-ever Mars livestream. For an hour, it

Jun 8, 2023