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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.

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

Taking turns with Tapo Caparo: Sols 3766-37368

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2023 - Curiosity has spent the last week or so balancing power constraints to enable remote science and environmental observations, along with the analyses of the Tapo Caparo Marker band drilled sample w

Mar 13, 2023

Don’t Dream and Drive: Sols 3764-3765

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 09, 2023 - What a contrast! When I look to my right, snow is accumulating on my window (yes, I am under the roof, if you are wondering) and in front of me are pictures of a beautiful red landscape! I am sure y

Mar 9, 2023

Layering history shows how water and carbon dioxide have moved across Mars

Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 08, 2023 - Mars' south polar layered deposits of H2O and CO2 ice record its climate history. A new study links the long-term global movement of Mars' water from midlatitude to pole to a function of the planet'

Mar 8, 2023

NASA’s Curiosity Views First ‘Sun Rays’ on Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2023 - Martian sunsets are uniquely moody, but NASA's Curiosity rover captured one last month that stands out. As the Sun descended over the horizon on Feb. 2, rays of light illuminated a bank of clouds. T

Mar 7, 2023

Solid-gas carbonate formation during dust events on Mars

Weihai, China (SPX) Mar 06, 2023 - A joint research team led by Dr. Xiaohui Fu and Dr. Zhongchen Wu from Shandong University, China, proposed a new carbonate formation mechanism in Martian dust activities based on simulation experime

Mar 6, 2023

SAM Wants More Sample: Sol 3762

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 06, 2023 - This morning's plan started a bit uncertain as we waited for the SAM team to decide whether to proceed with further analysis of the Tapo Caparo drill sample. Just in case they decided against it, la

Mar 6, 2023

Sols 3759-3761: More Analyses of the Tapo Caparo Drill Sample

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 03, 2023 - Curiosity is in the middle of a drill campaign at Tapo Caparo to characterize the rhythmically laminated unit of the Marker Band. Earlier this week CheMin got a first taste of this sample, and now i

Mar 3, 2023

Got Rock Sample: Sol 3755

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2023 - I am pleased to report that the tactical operations team had a successful morning as we were able to acquire a sample of the Tapo Caparo bedrock. Despite the target rock slab fracturing during drill

Mar 1, 2023

Perseverance from Team Curiosity: Sols 3752-3754

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2023 - On our weekly day off from planning, we awaited the triage data for Drill Sol 1 to confirm if Tapo Caparo seemed more drillable. After receiving the MAHLI image early in the day, we saw DRT scratche

Mar 1, 2023

Sol 3756: Sit back and wait for the data to roll in

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 28, 2023 - Today we planned a single sol plan. We are in the middle of the Tapo Caparo drill campaign. In yesterday's plan we delivered 2 portions of sample to our CheMin instrument for mineralogy. That analys

Feb 28, 2023

SuperCam’s AI capabilities enhanced with AEGIS upgrade

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2023 - As Perseverance celebrates its second anniversary on Mars, our team is reflecting on the rover's remarkable journey so far. In the past two years, Perseverance has collected 18 Martian samples, trav

Feb 24, 2023

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft remains in safe mode after IMU issue

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2023 - NASA's MAVEN spacecraft went into safe mode on Feb. 16 due to an issue with its Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), which measures the spacecraft's rate of rotation for determining its pointing during

Feb 24, 2023

Drilling the Marker Band Again: Sols 3750-3751

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2023 - We continue to drive along the Marker Band and found ourselves this morning (as planned) in an area of strongly laminated bedrock. The accompanying image shows the bedrock to the right of our curren

Feb 22, 2023

Better tools needed to determine ancient life on Mars

Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 - Current state-of-the-art instrumentation being sent to Mars to collect and analyze evidence of life might not be sensitive enough to make accurate assessments, according to a research team co-led by

Feb 22, 2023

Another Busy Day on Mars: Sol 3749

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2023 - After a holiday/soliday weekend, we're back to work with today's single sol plan, and there's a lot to pack into it. After the drive, Curiosity's wheel scuffed the rippled sand feature right i

Feb 21, 2023