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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.

Making Tracks up Marker Band Valley: Sols 3803-3804

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 20, 2023 - Curiosity is carefully and patiently driving up a local canyon, named Marker Band valley, across a variably tilting surface that is scattered with horizontally banded bedrock and patches of sand. Ca

Apr 20, 2023

NASA selects NAU researcher for international mission to Martian moons

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 20, 2023 - A planetary scientist at NAU is part of a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission to travel to Mars and survey the planet's two moons, including collecting a sample from one and returni

Apr 20, 2023

Curiosity gets a major software upgrade

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 19, 2023 - Years in the making, a major software update that has been installed on NASA's Curiosity rover will enable the Mars robot to drive faster and reduce wear and tear on its wheels. Those are just two o

Apr 19, 2023

Hey Percy, look at those boulders

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 18, 2023 - This past week, Perseverance has been exploring the top of the western fan in Jezero crater. Scientists have been waiting a long time to examine, up close, one of the terrains observed in this area:

Apr 18, 2023

Clouds Above, Contact Science Below: Sols 3800-3802

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 18, 2023 - Here in Toronto, the weather feels like summer. But in Gale Crater it's coming towards the end of Autumn. At this time of year, we enter Aphelion Cloud Belt season, when we see regular formation of

Apr 18, 2023

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes 50th flight

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 14, 2023 - The history-making rotorcraft has recently been negotiating some of the most hazardous terrain it's encountered on the Red Planet. NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed its 50th fligh

Apr 14, 2023

Slip and Pivot: Sol 3797

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 13, 2023 - As you can see in the above image, the terrain our rover drivers is navigating is challenging - slippery sand surrounding big, wheel-unfriendly rocks. These contrasting regimes contributed to us not

Apr 13, 2023

Curiosity software upgrade complete: Sol 3796

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2023 - As Ken noted in his recent blog, our beloved rover spent much of the last week completing a software upgrade while the science team met virtually to synthesize and discuss results. That upgrad

Apr 12, 2023

NASA unveils ‘Mars’ habitat for year-long experiments on Earth

Houston (AFP) April 12, 2023 - Four small rooms, a gym and a lot of red sand - NASA unveiled on Tuesday its new Mars-simulation habitat, in which volunteers will live for a year at a time to test what life will be like on future missions to Earth's neighbor.

Apr 12, 2023

Scoping out the next sampling stop for Perseverance

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 06, 2023 - After spending over 700 sols (Martian days) exploring the crater floor and delta front, Perseverance is making tracks up the front of the Jezero fan, climbing across stratigraphic layers, up and out

Apr 6, 2023

New interactive mosaic uses NASA imagery to show Mars in vivid detail

Washington DC (SPX) Apr 06, 2023 - Both scientists and the public can navigate a new global image of the Red Planet that was made at Caltech using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Cliffsides, impact craters, and du

Apr 6, 2023

Ready for Software Upgrade Sols 3786-3788

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 04, 2023 - An issue at a Deep Space Network station prevented the Sol 3785 plan from being sent to Mars, so none of those planned activities occurred. But the rover is in a good location and orientation for th

Apr 4, 2023

MOXIE Celebrates 2 Years on Mars: Discoveries and Work Left To Do

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 02, 2023 - MOXIE, the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, is a Perseverance Rover payload on Mars. MOXIE uses a scroll pump to capture the thin, carbon-dioxide dominate air of Mars and flows i

Apr 2, 2023

NASA’s Perseverance Collects First Mars Sample of New Science Campaign

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 02, 2023 - NASA's Perseverance rover cored and stored the first sample of the mission's newest science campaign on Thursday, March 30. With each campaign, the team explores and studies a new area. On this one,

Apr 2, 2023

First Mars Sample Depot shaped by Rover, Lander, and Helicopter

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 02, 2023 - NASA's Perseverance rover is now exploring the upper surface of the Western Fan in Jezero crater, having completed a very successful one Mars year Prime Mission. It has sealed 22 of the 43 sample tu

Apr 2, 2023

Tiptoeing through the tricky terrain: Sol 3785

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 31, 2023 - Signs of spring are all around as most of us come on shift from various locations within the northern hemisphere today. We still have thick snow on the ground here in eastern Canada, but the sounds

Mar 31, 2023