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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.

Can we see Mars’ Breath in the Winter Cold: Sols 3907-3908

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 04, 2023 - Earth planning date: Wednesday, August 2, 2023: We don't have a lot of power to play with today, so we have to be careful about how much time we give the different activities. As Arm Rover Planner,

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

NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle continues progress toward Mars Sample Return

Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 01, 2023 - NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently reached some major milestones in support of the Mars Sample Return program. The Mars Ascent Vehicle would be the first launch of a rocket from the surface o

Aug 1, 2023

Hoping for Frost Sol 3906

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 01, 2023 - Earth planning: Tuesday, August 1, 2023: Today we wrapped a single-sol plan for sol 3906. Our planning for this sol was primarily constrained by power. We had attempted to conduct a frost experiment

Aug 1, 2023

Deep Impact: Sol 3899

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 28, 2023 - Earth planning date: Tuesday July 25, 2023: The rover engineers yet again did a fantastic job navigating Curiosity through this tricky terrain of fractured blocks and sand. Our parking spot is on th

Jul 28, 2023

Frosty the ChemCam: Sols 3902-3904

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 28, 2023 - Earth planning date: Friday, July 28, 2023: Our Thursday drive on sol 3901 was successful and put us ~30 meters further from Bradbury Landing! That's a pretty typical-length drive for us, with the l

Jul 28, 2023

Mawrth Vallis region – the deepest clay deposits on Mars

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 27, 2023 - New images, created using data acquired by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, s

Jul 27, 2023

Making the most of limited power: Sols 3900-3901

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2023 - Earth planning date: Wednesday July 26, 2023: As in many recent MSL plans, power limited what we could fit into today's 2-sol plan. Why is power so limited? As expected, MSL's plutonium power source

Jul 26, 2023

Unveiling Mars’ Past: Olympus Mons as a Gigantic Volcanic Isle

Paris, France (SPX) Jul 26, 2023 - Is it possible that Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in our solar system, was once a behemoth volcanic island on Mars, equivalent in size to the nation of France? According to the latest research l

Jul 26, 2023

Sol 3898: A Stop Along the Road

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 24, 2023 - Earth planning date: Monday July 24, 2023: Today's single sol plan takes us further into our road trip through the Jau crater cluster. Like any road trip, we're taking frequent stops to take in the

Jul 24, 2023

Sleeping the Sol Away: Sol 3894

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2023 - Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 19, 2023. Curiosity is, first and foremost, a robotic geologist. As an atmospheric scientist who is a member of the environmental science team, this often means

Jul 21, 2023

Perseverance sees Mars in a new light

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2023 - In its first 400 days on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover may have found a diverse collection of organics - carbon-based molecules considered the building blocks of life - thanks to SHERLOC, an innov

Jul 21, 2023

Sols 3895-3897: Navigating Through the Crater Cluster

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2023 - Earth planning date: Friday, July 21, 2023: Curiosity is working her way through the Jau crater cluster, with the goal of trying to understand how all of these small craters formed and have since

Jul 21, 2023

CHAPEA Mars Simulation program a test bed for food systems and crop cultivation

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2023 - The initial crew selected for NASA's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) mission 1, a ground-based Mars habitat simulation, is set to evaluate the efficacy of growing fresh produ

Jul 20, 2023

Ancient river is helping Perseverance Mars Rover do its work

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 20, 2023 - The six-wheeled geologist is getting some assistance in its search for diverse rock samples that could be brought to Earth for deeper investigation. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover sealed the t

Jul 20, 2023

The clays of Mawrth Vallis

Paris (ESA) Jul 20, 2023 - ESA's Mars Express has revisited an old favourite: the distinctive and fascinating Mawrth Vallis, one of the most promising locations on Mars in our search for signs of life. Mars Express has

Jul 20, 2023