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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.

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

Journey to Tenby!

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 29, 2023 - Over the past several weeks, Perseverance has traveled up Jezero's western fan and has begun exploring its upper surface, a potential treasure-trove of information about the river systems that flowe

Mar 29, 2023

Flight 49 Preview – By the Numbers

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 29, 2023 - NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is preparing for its 49th flight on Mars, with a flight date scheduled for March 29th, 2023. The helicopter's goal for this flight is to reposition itself and conduc

Mar 29, 2023

A Picture Perfect Day – Or To Be More Exact, a Day Perfect for Taking Pictures Sols 3783-3784

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2023 - Due to some delayed downlink of images, we didn't receive all the information we needed in time to do contact science today. Although the data did eventually arrive, it was too late to allow us to g

Mar 27, 2023

The race is on for Ingenuity and Perseverance to stay the distance

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2023 - The Perseverance rover spent the first two Earth years of its mission on Mars driving and sampling within Jezero crater. As anticipated, Jezero was found to be rich with interesting geological featu

Mar 27, 2023

Sols 3780-3782: Perfect 10

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 24, 2023 - Curiosity is ten and a half years into operating in Gale cater, a concept that before and even a few years after landing seemed to be an impossible dream. When we landed, my daughter - then 6 - aske

Mar 24, 2023

Geologists Love a Good Contact: Sols 3773-3775

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2023 - With a jam packed three-sol plan on her plate, Curiosity won't have time to kick back and relax this weekend! The rover is heading south across the Marker Band and is currently sitting in front of a

Mar 21, 2023

Waves and a Rock: Sols 3778-3779

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2023 - Monday's planned drive positioned Curiosity with a new workspace to investigate. We have left the Marker Band, with Natalie's blog nicely summarizing our campaign there. As a physicist and spectrosc

Mar 21, 2023

Spring Past the Marker Band: Sols 3776-3777

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2023 - Our Tapo Caparo drill campaign is officially concluded and our wheels are turning again! Specifically, we're back on the strategically-created route up Aeolis Mons (aka Mount Sharp), paving the pa

Mar 21, 2023

Toodle-oo Tapo Caparo: Sols 3771-3772

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2023 - Today, we finally leave Tapo Caparo and begin something new. But... actually, we are not going very far. Whilst sitting at Tapo Caparo, we spent some time looking around at the neighbourhood using M

Mar 17, 2023

Hansel and Gretel’s breadcrumb trick inspires robotic exploration of caves on Mars and beyond

Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 17, 2023 - House hunting on Mars could soon become a thing, and researchers at the University of Arizona are already in the business of scouting real estate that future astronauts could use as habitats. Resear

Mar 17, 2023

Engineers keep an eye on fuel supply of NASA’s oldest Mars orbiter

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 16, 2023 - Since NASA launched the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter to the Red Planet almost 22 years ago, the spacecraft has looped around Mars more than 94,000 times. That's about the equivalent of 1.37 billion mil

Mar 16, 2023

Remains of a modern glacier found near Martian equator

Mountain View CA (SPX) Mar 16, 2023 - In a groundbreaking announcement at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in The Woodlands, Texas, scientists revealed the discovery of a relict glacier near Mars' equator. Located in

Mar 16, 2023

Building on Luna and Mars with StarCrete the double stength concrete

Manchester UK (SPX) Mar 16, 2023 - Building infrastructure in space is currently prohibitively expensive and difficult to achieve. Future space construction will need to rely on simple materials that are easily available to astronaut

Mar 16, 2023

ExoMars rover testing moves ahead and deep down

Paris (ESA) Mar 15, 2023 - This was the third successful deep drilling test on Earth for the European wheeled laboratory, an operation crucial to answer the question of whether there was, or is, life on the Red Planet.

Mar 15, 2023

Crossing Off Our Liens at Tapo Caparo: Sols 3769-3770

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 14, 2023 - Today's 2-sol plan wraps up our remaining drill campaign and workspace liens at Tapo Caparo. Our weekend plan ran successfully though we had a known issue which caused several of our remote se

Mar 14, 2023