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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.

Another Busy Day on Mars: Sol 3749

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.

Feb 21, 2023

Sols 3744-3745: The One That Got Away

The team was eagerly awaiting our downlink this morning to hear how the drill attempt from Sol 3742 went.

Feb 20, 2023

Perseverance set to begin third year on Mars at Jezero Crater

NASA's Perseverance rover will celebrate its second anniversary on the surface of Mars Saturday, Feb.

Feb 20, 2023

Study quantifies global impact of electricity in dust storms on Mars

Mars is infamous for its intense dust storms, some of which kick up enough dust to be seen by telescopes on Earth.

Feb 17, 2023

When data show up late: Sols 3746-3748

Today, I was heading for my computer when my colleagues went off to celebrate the end of the working week.

Feb 17, 2023

Hope probe to move to a new Mars orbit and observe deimos

Celebrating our second year orbiting the red Planet, the Emirates Mars Mission 'Hope Probe', the first Arab-led planetary exploration mission, is transitioning to a new orbit.

Feb 16, 2023

NASA study seeks to understand impact effects on Mars rocks

A NASA study describes how rocks could have been "shocked" and changed by meteorite impacts, once frequent on ancient Mars.

Feb 16, 2023

Complex subsurface of Mars imaged by Chinese rover Zhurong

Ground-penetrating radar from China's Martian rover Zhurong reveals shallow impact craters and other geologic structures in the top five meters of the red planet's surface.

Feb 15, 2023

Perseverance shows off collection of Mars samples

The Red Planet rover snapped a portrait of the sample depot it has assembled with 10 backup sample tubes that could be returned to Earth by a future mission.

Feb 15, 2023

Preparing to drill Dinira: Sols 3737-3738

In Monday's two-sol plan we completed a short drive to another drill location as we continued our attempt to acquire a sample of the Marker Band for potential analysis by SAM and CheMin.

Feb 13, 2023

The first in the universe, but what’s next

A momentous accomplishment occurred last week when Perseverance completed the Three Forks Sample Depot on the floor of Jezero Crater, the only known sample depot in the universe.

Feb 13, 2023

Let’s Drill: Sols 3742-3743

Currently we are drilling the Dinira target! The scientists and engineers have been closely working together to adjust the drilling strategy to give us the best shot of a successful drill while also managing the wear and tear on our hardware.

Feb 13, 2023

Cloud gazing while we get ready to drill: Sols 3739-3741

The team is taking a little time to work through the best strategy for drilling here, so today's plan just focused on collecting additional contact science and remote sensing data from around the future Dinira drill target.

Feb 13, 2023

NASA awards Mars mission launch to Blue Origin

NASA has commissioned private space launch company Blue Origin, to launch a mission to study the magnetosphere of Mars.

Feb 10, 2023

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission headed to Mars in 2024 on Blue Origin’s New Glenn

Blue Origin, LLC of Kent, Washington, has been contracted by NASA to launch the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission through their Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) program.

Feb 10, 2023

NASA’s Curiosity finds surprise clues to Mars’ watery past

When NASA's Curiosity rover arrived at the "sulfate-bearing unit" last fall, scientists thought they'd seen the last evidence that lakes once covered this region of Mars.

Feb 9, 2023