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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.

Mars Odyssey Reaches Its Destination, and an Anxious Moment

Tempe - Oct 14, 2001 - When NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft reaches Mars on October 23, Arizona State University geologist Philip Christensen will be as nervous as a scientist can be, watching a critical experiment enter a key phase. He has an important instrument aboard the spacecraft which is entering a difficult stage in its journey and all he can do is sit and watch television, waiting for word of success or failure.

Oct 14, 2001

Odyssey Adjusts Its Attitude Ahead Of Arrival

Pasadena - Oct 14, 2001 - Following a s final planned course correction, NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is on perfect target to enter Martian orbit later this month at 7:26pm Pacific time Oct. 23 (0226 UT Oct. 24).

Oct 14, 2001

Scientists Track Perfect Storm On Mars

Baltimore - Oct 11, 2001 - A pair of eagle-eyed NASA spacecraft -- the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Hubble Space Telescope -- are giving amazed astronomers scientists a ringside seat to the biggest global dust storm seen on Mars in several decades.

Oct 11, 2001

Geophysical Detection of Subsurface H2O and CO2 On Mars

Melbourne - Oct 10, 2001 - In early August some eighty international scientists from around the world met in August in Houston, Texas, at the NASA-sponsored GeoMars conference to discuss current and future missions to the Red Planet and instruments, data and observations relevant to the subsurface distribution of volatiles.

Oct 10, 2001

Search For Martian Life Will Need Good Vibrations

Bradford - Oct 10, 2001 - University of Bradford PhD student Emma Newton is playing a part in helping NASA's planned exploration of Mars which many people hope will lead to discovering life on the planet.

Oct 10, 2001

Ancient, Gigantic Drainage Basin Become Aquifer On Mars

Tucson - Oct 9, 2001 - An enormous ancient drainage basin and aquifer system lies hidden and deformed in one of the most geologically dynamic landscapes on Mars, scientists conclude from a comprehensive, more than 10-year study.

Oct 9, 2001

War Of The Worlds Production Remains Suspended

Seattle - Oct 7, 2001 - Pendragon Pictures' principals are concerned over a rumor that production of War of the Worlds is about to resume on October 8th. Director Timothy Hines expresses dismay at the rumor, It is absolutely not true that War of the Worlds is about to resume.

Oct 7, 2001

Top 25 TES Science Results From Mars Global Surveyor

Tempe - Oct 4, 2001 - TES is both an instrument and a technique. The Thermal Emission Spectrometer is a scientific instrument that first flew aboard the Mars Observer spacecraft. Following the loss of that spacecraft, TES was rebuilt and launched along with five of the original seven Mars Observer instruments aboard the new Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The purpose of TES is to measure the thermal infrared energy (heat) emitted from Mars. This technique, called thermal emission spectroscopy, can tell us much about the geology and atmosphere of Mars. TES data will provide the first detailed look at the composition of Mars.

Oct 4, 2001

NASA Selects Spacecraft Contractor For 2005 Mars Mission

Pasadena - October 3, 2001 - NASA has selected Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, to build the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft scheduled for launch in August 2005 to return the highest resolution images yet of the Red Planet.

Oct 3, 2001

Plenty of Water on Mars

Orlando - August 31, 2001 - When we make it to Mars, there's an excellent chance that we will find a vast, easy-access watering hole to help sustain life on the Red Planet.

Aug 31, 2001

Europe to identify underground water on Mars

Paris - Aug 27, 2001 - Geologists poring over the latest images from Mars keep on turning up new and tantalising evidence that water once flowed freely on the planet's surface -- and may still flow from time to time. If their interpretation is right, underground aquifers or ice layers should be commonplace on the planet. Yet no spacecraft flown so far has been capable of identifying them.

Aug 27, 2001

Tecstar Returns to Mars

City Of Industry - Aug 27, 2001 - Tecstar Inc. reported that its recently announced TEC 3i solar cell has been selected to power NASA JPL's latest mars exploration spacecraft and robotic rover vehicle.

Aug 27, 2001

Mars Odyssey Develops Problem With Radiation Experiment Payload

Pasadena - August 20, 2001 - NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft, now 18.5 million kilometers (11.5 million miles) from Mars and on its way to rendezvous with the red planet on Oct. 23, has developed a problem with its radiation instrument. Flight controllers have turned off the Martian radiation environment experiment after the instrument did not respond during a downlink session last week.

Aug 20, 2001

Odyssey Checks In A Month Out From Mars

Pasadena - August 20, 2001 - NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft performed its third trajectory correction maneuver last night to fine-tune its flight path for arrival at Mars next month.

Aug 20, 2001

Scouting The Red Planet – Part 8

Cameron Park - August 6, 2001 - Finally, there is Artemis, a proposal by David Paige of UCLA - which, of all the 10 superior proposals from the Workshop, is the one that bears by far the closest resemblance to the original concept of Mars Scout as a collection of small cheap landers to be scattered widely across Mars' surface. It is perhaps also the concept that would require the least new technological development.

Aug 6, 2001

HEADLINEScientists Find Largest Flood Channels in the Solar System

Tucson - Aug 1, 2001 - Scientists may have discovered the largest flood channels in the solar system on Mars where a system of gigantic ancient valleys, some as much as 200 kilometers wide, lies partly buried under a veneer of volcanic lava flows, ash fall and wind-blown dust in Mars' western hemisphere.

Aug 1, 2001