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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.

Generac Donates High-Quality Power System To Mars Desert Research Station

Los Angeles - May 21, 2002 - Generac Power Systems has donated a high quality power system to support the work of the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS). The donated unit, which will serve as the MDRS' primary source of electrical power, is a 20 kilowatt generator set. This mobile unit is trailer mounted, and is powered by a 1.5 Liter liquid- cooled four cylinder engine that is fueled by LP gas.

May 21, 2002

Martian Scientists Hope To Stir Up A Devil Of A Storm

Tucson - May 21, 2002 - Scientists from several nations begin an unprecedented 3-and-1/2-week pilot field experiment on the Santa Cruz flats near Eloy, Ariz., today, May 20, to discover how dust devils may affect atmospheres on Earth and on Mars.

May 21, 2002

NASA’s Global Surveyor Adds To Its Martian Photo Album

Pasadena - May 9, 2002 - A view of the red planet almost completely enveloped in dust storms is one of 15,251 newly released images from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor. These images bring the total number of snapshots taken by the spacecraft to more than 93,000.

May 9, 2002

Mars Global Surveyor Aging Gracefully

Pasadena (JPL) May 3, 2002 - As an automobile ages, it usually requires more trips to a mechanic. Spacecraft are designed for a primary mission; when all is going well, the mission is often extended to obtain more data for other research objectives.

May 3, 2002

Cosmonauts, Mind The Galactic Radiation

Moscow - Apr 30, 2002 - Space expeditions will fly to the Mars in fifteen years if all prerequisites are successfully met. For the future interplanetary expedition Moscow scientists have developed an efficient system to protect the crew from space radiation during the long-term travel to the Mars and back.

Apr 30, 2002

Fabrication of EuroMARS Begins!

The fabrication of the European Mars Analog Research Station (EuroMARS) has begun in earnest.

Apr 30, 2002

Global Surveyor Continues Its Watch on the Red Planet

Pasadena (JPL) Apr 30, 2002 - Weather reports from Mars, global mapping, inspection of potential landing sites, more data about the red planet than from all previous missions - no problem for the hardworking Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.

Apr 30, 2002

New Biosatellite To Study Life In Martian Gravity

Los Angeles - Apr 22, 2002 - The Mars Society has announced a landmark private space mission that willhelp researchers understand the long-term effects of living on Mars. MIT(Cambridge, MA), the University of Washington (Seattle, WA), and the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) are leading the project.

Apr 22, 2002

Greenhouse For A Red Planet

Washington - Apr 21, 2002 - Discovery channel partner SpaceRef Interactive has donated an experimental greenhouse to the SETI Institute's Center for the Study of Life in the Universe. The donation will support research activities on Devon Island, Nunavut, in the Canadian high Arctic, conducted under the auspices of the NASA Haughton-Mars Project that is developing research concepts for the human exploration of Mars.

Apr 21, 2002

Strengthening The Case For Life On Mars

Brighton - Apr 9, 2002 - When it was announced last month that the Mars Odyssey satellite had found water ice beneath the planet's frozen carbon dioxide south polar ice cap, Dr. Lidija Siller, a physicist from the University of Newcastle, England, felt excited. I believe that the data I have explains how this water became trapped underneath the surface,she said.

Apr 9, 2002

Hope Yet The Beagle Will Land

Los Angeles - Apr 04, 2002 - Over the past week, there have been two important developments connected with plans by NASA and the European Space Agency to land as many as three spacecraft on during 2003-04 Mars window.

Apr 4, 2002

Mars Odyssey’s THEMIS Begins Posting Daily Images

Pasadena - Mar 31, 2002 - Need to get away to someplace exotic? Mars is now open for daily sightseeing. Beginning March 27, 2002, recent images of Mars taken by the Thermal Emission Imaging System on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft have been available to the public via the Internet.

Mar 31, 2002

Sorting Out Martian Ices

Pasadena - Mar 21, 2002 - When astronauts finally land on Mars, a safe bet is that they'll head for northern climes if they intend to spend much time there. That's because nearly all the available water is frozen as ice at the north pole. Planetary scientists have been aware of this for some time, but they now have a new clue why it is so.

Mar 21, 2002

Mars Radiation Meter Back Online

Los Angeles - Mar 18, 2002 - The Martian Radiation Environment Experiment - acronymically known as MARIE -- is back online and collecting more data. As the radiation monitor was fired up, MARIE's scientists reported Tuesday at the 33rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference that the data she returned last year reveals that space radiation is even more intense than their models had indicated.

Mar 18, 2002

University Of Dayton Geologist Recreates ‘life On Mars’ Evidence In Her Laboratory

Dayton - Mar 18, 2002 - As NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft begins exploring the planet, particularly looking for signs of water that once could have nourished life, a University of Dayton geologist is disproving what some pointed to as scientific evidence of past life on the Red Planet.

Mar 18, 2002

Support For Critical Role Of Carbon Dioxide On Mars Grows

Washington - Mar 13, 2002 - Scientists have provided new evidence that liquid carbon dioxide, not running water, may have been the primary cause of erosional features such as gullies, valley networks, and channels that cover the surface of Mars.

Mar 13, 2002