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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.

Senate expresses ‘significant concerns’ over NASA’s Mars sample-retrieval plan

Washington DC (UPI) Jul 20, 2023 - NASA's plans to retrieve samples of soil from Mars and fly them back to Earth seemingly is in deep trouble with a Senate committee. On Wednesday, a Senate appropriations committee offered only

Jul 20, 2023

It’s all still Rock and Roll to Us: Sols 3889-3891

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 18, 2023 - Earth Planning Date: Friday, July 14, 2023: In human spaceflight, it's a tradition to wake the crew up with a wake-up song to let them know Wake up, it's time to get to work! For decades, this t

Jul 18, 2023

The Lion’s Mane: Sols 3892-3893

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2023 - Earth planning date: Monday, July 17, 2023. Today we planned a two sol Touch and Go plan. Our weekend drive successfully brought us about 28 metres, bringing us closer to the crater cluster, a s

Jul 17, 2023

Sols 3887-3888: The Vastness

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2023 - Earth Planning Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - A blue hue inches over the horizon illuminating a sea of rocks scattered across the landscape like the scales of a fish. Among the sea, alone in the v

Jul 14, 2023

Earth and Moon seen from Mars

Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2023 - You are on Mars, looking back at your home planet Earth. How do you feel? Look again over several weeks and - with the aid of binoculars - you'll see a little white dot orbiting around a bigge

Jul 14, 2023

SHERLOC instrument offers new perspective on Jezero Crater, Mars

Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 13, 2023 - Scientists are getting a closer look of potential organic signatures in Martian rocks and may have found evidence of key building blocks of life preserved within two potentially habitable paleo-depo

Jul 13, 2023

New study reveals evidence of diverse organic material on Mars

Gainesville FL (SPX) Jul 13, 2023 - A new study featuring data from the NASA Mars Perseverance rover reports on an instrumental detection potentially consistent with organic molecules on the Martian surface, hinting toward past habita

Jul 13, 2023

Planning Take Two: Sols 3885-3886

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2023 - Earth planning: Monday, July 10, 2023 This weekend, Curiosity went into runout and was unable to execute the Sols 3882-3884 plan that is detailed in last blog post. Nothing is actually wrong; runout

Jul 12, 2023

Sols 3882-3884: Weekend Routine for a Red Rover

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2023 - Earth Planning Date: Friday, July 7, 2023. Happy Friday, Earthlings! Few things are better than planning an action-packed weekend on Mars. It's even better when the last plan executed like a charm;

Jul 12, 2023

First CHAPEA Crew Begins 378-Day Mission

Houston TX (SPX) Jul 11, 2023 - The inaugural CHAPEA, or Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, mission began Sunday, June 25, when the four-person volunteer crew entered its new home at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Hou

Jul 11, 2023

Martian dunes eroded by a shift in prevailing winds after the planet’s last ice age

Beijing, China (SPX) Jul 06, 2023 - Detailed analysis of data obtained by the Zhurong rover of dunes located on the southern Utopian Plain of Mars suggests the planet underwent a major shift in climate that accompanied changes in prev

Jul 6, 2023

Heading toward a cluster of craters: Sols 3880-3881

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 05, 2023 - While many of us were up late watching fireworks here on Earth, Curiosity wrapped up a very busy weekend on Mars. The team was pleased that our four-sol plan over the 4th of July holiday executed as

Jul 5, 2023

Ingenuity phones home

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 03, 2023 - The 52nd flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is now in the official mission logbook as a success. The flight took place back on April 26, but mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labo

Jul 3, 2023

A bumpy road ahead for Curiosity: Sols 3876-3879

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 30, 2023 - Our latest assessment period over sols 3872 and 3873 was a touch and go plan: some contact science and other observations, followed by a drive. We performed some imaging and DRT (Dust Removal Tool

Jun 30, 2023

Gullies on Mars could have been formed by recent periods of liquid meltwater

Providence RI (SPX) Jun 30, 2023 - A study led by Brown University researchers offers new insights into how water from melting ice could have played a recent role in the formation of ravine-like channels that cut down the sides of im

Jun 30, 2023

Up up up and finally over: Sols 3873-3875

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 28, 2023 - We made it! We are peeking up over the edge of the ridge that we have been trying to climb for a few weeks now. The view ahead is spectacular but it's worth pausing for a minute to look back down in

Jun 28, 2023