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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.

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Jun 5, 2001

Dust Devils At Arizona Targeted For Mars Experiment This Week

Tucson - June 4, 2001 - A University of Arizona-led international team of 20 space scientists and engineers this week are conducting an ambitious field test of equipment to study dust devils swirling over the Santa Cruz flats near Eloy, Ariz.

Jun 4, 2001

NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor Captures Dust Storms

Pasadena - June 4, 2001 - Daily global maps, created with images from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, provide a moving picture of Martian weather during 1999-2000 similar to the familiar satellite weather maps we see of Earth.

Jun 4, 2001

The Quarantine And Certification Of Martian Samples

Middleport - May 31, 2001 - The Space Studies Board of the National Research Council released its new report concerning the Mars Sample Return project entitled The Quarantine And Certification Of Martian Samples.

May 31, 2001

Prepare Now For Martian Samples Warn Scientists

Washington - May 29, 2001 - Work on a quarantine facility must begin soon if it is to be ready in time for spacecraft returning to Earth with martian rocks and soil in tow, says a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council.

May 29, 2001

Martian Cook Up Closer Than Ever

Fayetteville - May 23, 2001 - University of Arkansas researchers have moved one step closer to growing microorganisms under Mars-like conditions by suspending them in water containing dissolved matter from Mars soil simulant.

May 23, 2001

University of Guelph Launches Research To Sustain Life During Deep-Space Missions

Guelph - May 18, 2001 - Life on Mars is one step closer to reality following the opening of a Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility at the University of Guelph that will seek to better understand how to sustainlife in deep space.

May 18, 2001

Humans Could Set Foot On Mars By 2020: Nasa Chief Humans Could Set Foot On Mars By 2020: Nasa Chief

Washington (AFP) May 9, 2001 - A human space explorer will be able to set foot on Mars no later than the year 2020 and visit other planets of the Solar system in the following decades, the head of the US space agency announced Wednesday.

May 9, 2001

Genetically Modified Earth Plants Will Glow From Mars

Gainesville - May 8, 2001 - In what reads like a story from a 1950s science fiction magazine, a team of University of Florida scientists has genetically modified a tiny plant to send reports back from Mars in a most unworldly way: by emitting an eerie, fluorescent glow.

May 8, 2001

Chronicles Of Martian Exploration

Moscow - May 1, 2001 - People are the most vulnerable chain in long-term space expedition. How numerous should a crew be? What are the principles of a crew selection? What should be made to protect people during a flight and on some other planet?

May 1, 2001

Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2001 – Part One

Cameron Park - May 1, 2001 - The 32nd Annual Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference -- held in Houston from March 12 through 16 -- like all the LPSCs before it, was a major scientific powwow at which scientists from the world over presented hundreds of papers and posters on the geology, meteorology and chemistry of the other worlds and objects in our Solar System, from giant planets down to meteorites.

May 1, 2001

Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2001 – Part Seven

Cameron Park - May 1, 2001 - In short, this year's LPSC papers on Mars make it abundantly clear that a new paradigm has become extremely important in understanding the strange and puzzling history of Mars: the idea that the planet's geology has been radically affected by the fact that -- unlike Earth -- it's cold enough for great amounts of carbon dioxide to get into its subsurface.

May 1, 2001

Plastic Homes For A Rusty World

New York - April 4, 2001 - If astronauts ever make it to Mars, they'll need a roof over their heads. Bricks are too heavy to lug all the way from Earth, but with just a few bucket-loads of polyethylene powder, they could rustle them up when they get there.

Apr 4, 2001

Tectonics Not Oceans Shaped Ancient Ridges

Tucson - April 4, 2001 - What scientists suspect might be ancient ocean shorelines on the northern plains of Mars is actually a network of tectonic ridges related to dramatic martian volcanism, a University of Arizona planetary sciences graduate student and a collaborating post-doctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report in the April 5 issue of Nature.

Apr 4, 2001

Exotic CO2 Process May Have Carved Martian Gullies

Tucson - April 2, 2001 - Last June scientists announced that gullies seen on some martian cliffs and crater walls suggest that liquid water has seeped down the slopes in the geologically recent past. Researchers found small channels on slopes facing away from mid-day sunlight, with most channels occurring at high latitudes, near Mars' south pole.

Apr 2, 2001

The Lure of Hematite On A Rusty World

Huntsville - March 28, 2001 - Scientists think Mars has a bad case of rust. Martian soil is full of iron-bearing compounds that, over the eons, have reacted with trace amounts of oxygen and water vapor in Mars' atmosphere to form iron oxide -- the same chemical that covers innumerable rusty nails in garages and workshops on Earth.

Mar 28, 2001