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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.

Wheels In The Sky NASA’s Mars Exploration Program

Pasadena - Jun 02, 2003 - When Chris Voorhees thinks about wheels, he doesn't imagine the rubber hitting the road, but aluminum crawling across the surface of Mars. In fact, he has already seen some of his handiwork making its way across the red planet. One of the first jobs Voorhees was handed as an intern was stamping out over 1,000 stainless steel cleats for the Sojourner rover on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission.

Jun 2, 2003

Is There Martian Mud in Russell Crater

Moffett Field - May 29, 2003 - A pair of German scientists have examined Martian dune images and found what appears to resemble terrestrial mudflows. On Earth, particularly in alpine and arctic regions, such a debris trail is left behind when fine-grained soil mixes with liquid water from intense rainfall or sudden melting of surface ice.

May 29, 2003

Scientists Eager To Get On BoardExoMars

Paris - May 27, 2003 - For centuries, mankind has wondered whether alien life exists on another planet in our solar system. One of the most promising places to discover signs of life beyond Earth is the planet Mars, and scientists around the globe are clamouring for an opportunity to participate in ExoMars, an exobiology mission which is being planned as part of ESA's pioneering Aurora Programme.

May 27, 2003

MARS Rovers Get Bio Scrub Ahead Of Launch

Cape Canaveral - May 26, 2003 - What do NASA's soon-to-be-launched Mars Exploration Rover (MER-1 and MER-2) spacecraft have in common with the Viking and Voyager spacecraft launched decades ago? Besides being interplanetary explorers, they will be among the most biologically clean spacecraft ever launched from Cape Canaveral.

May 26, 2003

MARS-1 Humvee Rover Reaches Devon Island After Crossing Frozen Sea

Mountain View - May 22, 2003 - The Mars Institute today announced that its MARS-1 Humvee rover has reached Devon Island in the Canadian high Arctic after successfully crossing the Wellington Channel, a 23 mile (37 km) stretch of treacherous sea ice separating Cornwallis Island from Devon Island at 75¿N.

May 22, 2003

Mars Express Will Put Europe About And On Mars

Paris - May 22, 2003 - On 2 June 2003, the first European mission to Mars will be launched. It will also be the first European mission to any planet. Mars Express has been designed to perform the most thorough exploration ever of the Red Planet.

May 22, 2003

A New Way To Explore The Surface Of Mars

Washington - May 19, 2003 - Students from North Carolina State University (NCSU) are helping NASA expand the exploration of the surface of Mars. The team of students and researchers has designed a wind-powered rover that can be blown, like tumbleweed, across the surface of the Red Planet collecting atmospheric and geological samples at multiple locations.

May 19, 2003

Doctoral Student Darlene Lim Ponders Ultimate Road Trip

Toronto - May 19, 2003 - Scientists estimated that in five billion years the sun will become a red giant, swallowing up Earth and everything else in its path. Darlene Lim, a PhD student in geology and an expert on Mars exploration, is planning ahead.

May 19, 2003

NASA Orders New Mars Airplane Prototype

Manassas - May 07, 2003 - Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. has received an order from the NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., for a full-scale prototype of a proposed Mars airplane. The aircraft is being built as part of the Mars Scout Aerial Regional-Scale Environmental Survey (ARES) project of which Dr. Joel S. Levine is the Principal Investigator.

May 7, 2003

Instant Glider: Just add Light

Huntsville - May 02, 2003 - Tomorrow a high-altitude balloon will rise to the edge of space, bringing with it a small glider. Under the space-black sky 100,000 feet above Earth, the glider will sprout a pair of inflatable wings from its sides. Ultraviolet rays from the Sun will harden them to flight readiness.

May 2, 2003

Live Webcast Will Preview Mars Rover Adventure

Pasadena - Apr 30, 2003 - A live interactive broadcast and webcast on May 1 will offer an advance look at NASA's plans to land two robotic geologists on Mars in January 2004 -- the Mars Exploration Rover mission.

Apr 30, 2003

Beagle Points to Mars based on ESA mission data

Moffett Field - Apr 28, 2003 - The Beagle 2 project is the British-led effort to land on Mars as part of the European Space Agency's Mars Express Mission to be launched in June 2003. As a result of the relative positions of Mars and Earth in 2003, a launch during this window offers the shortest journey, the minimum transit time, allowing the maximum payload with the reduced fuel requirements.

Apr 28, 2003

The Radar Search For Martian Water

Dublin - Apr 22, 2003 - Until the last few years, Mars has been regarded as a cold, arid world that lost most of its water long ago. However, recent observations by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey spacecraft have provided tantalising evidence that huge amounts of water may be hidden just below the surface.

Apr 22, 2003

Europe Goes To Mars

London - Apr 17, 2003 - Mars Express, the European Space Agency's mission to Mars, is due to launch from Baikonur in Kazakstan in June 2003 (launch window is 1st to 23rd June). This week scientists involved in both the orbiter and lander will meet together in London to finalise and co-ordinate scientific operations between these two elements of the mission - a community of European scientists linked by their mutual desire to reveal the secrets of the mysterious Red Planet.

Apr 17, 2003

NASA Rovers Slated To Examine Two Intriguing Sites On Mars

Pasadena - Apr 14, 2003 - NASA has chosen two scientifically compelling landing sites for twin robotic rovers to explore on the surface of Mars early next year. The two sites are a giant crater that appears to have once held a lake, and a broad outcropping of a mineral that usually forms in the presence of liquid water.

Apr 14, 2003

Mars: Settling In For The Long Wait

South Bend - Apr 11, 2003 - The loss of the shuttle Columbia on February 1 has triggered an extensive re-examination of the space program by supporters and pundits alike. It has also stimulated renewed popular interest in a range of schemes for accelerating space exploration-especially for sending humans to Mars-some of which appear to be panaceas of little immediate practical value.

Apr 11, 2003