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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.

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

Contracts Awarded For Mars Ascent Vehicle Concept Studies

Pasadena - July 26, 2001 - NASA's Mars Technology Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has awarded three industry contracts for the development of concepts for a small rocket that will lift science samples gathered by NASA's Mars Sample Return mission from the Martian surface and support their return to Earth.

Jul 26, 2001

Evidence Of Icy Region And Recent Climate Change Observed On Mars

Providence - July 25, 2001 - New images of the surface of Mars provide the first direct evidence that the climate of Mars changed during the last 100,000 years, much more recently than the hundreds of millions of years scientists had previously thought, according to Brown University geologist John Mustard. The high- resolution images show evidence of water ice closer to the equator than had previously been observed.

Jul 25, 2001

Mars Gets A Global Dusting

Tempe - July 23, 2001 - Though there has been a fair amount of evidence that the Earth's atmosphere is undergoing global warming, the process is slow enough that there are plenty of skeptics, including some very influential people, who argue that it may not be happening at all.

Jul 23, 2001

Water Shaped Martian Landscape in Recent Times Claims Hydrologist

Tucson - July 23, 2001 - Scientists have known for decades that Mars, at least in its ancient past, has had a considerable amount of water.

Jul 23, 2001

Hubble Captures Best View Of Mars Ever Obtained From Earth

Washington - July 9, 2001 - Frosty white water ice clouds and swirling orange dust storms above a vivid rusty landscape reveal Mars as a dynamic planet in this sharpest view ever obtained by an Earth-based telescope.

Jul 9, 2001

Vladimir’s Postcards From Proto-Mars

Devon Island - July 9, 2001 - When most people go on vacation, they want to forget all about their jobs. But ESA physicist-engineer Vladimir Pletser, who develops ISS payloads and organizes zero-gravity parabolic flights for the agency, is taking the ultimate working holiday. This week, he's off to Mars.

Jul 9, 2001

Waste Not, Want Not On The Road To Mars

Devon Island - July 9, 2001 - When the first humans go to Mars, they will need to pack very carefully. Everything for a three-year trip will need to fit into one small spacecraft. Once on the journey, the astronauts will throw nothing away, including human waste. Precisely how to turn such waste into food, oxygen and water is the subject of an ESA project, which is building a small pilot plant outside Barcelona, Spain.

Jul 9, 2001

Subglacial Volcanoes On Mars

Edinburgh - June 27, 2001 - The search for liquid water is key for finding habitable environments on Mars today--places where prebiotic chemistry and/or life could still be going on.

Jun 27, 2001

Mars Express – Europe Conquers the Red Planet

Le Bourget - June 21, 2001 - For the first time, a European space probe is to fly to Mars and land on the planet by the end of 2003. Mars Express shall investigate whether there was once water on our neighboring planet Mars and whether life was formed at that time.

Jun 21, 2001