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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.

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

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

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

Perseverance set to begin third year on Mars at Jezero Crater

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2023 - NASA's Perseverance rover will celebrate its second anniversary on the surface of Mars Saturday, Feb. 18. Since arriving at Jezero Crater in 2021, the six-wheeled, nuclear-powered rover has been exa

Feb 20, 2023

Sols 3744-3745: The One That Got Away

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2023 - The team was eagerly awaiting our downlink this morning to hear how the drill attempt from Sol 3742 went. The images came down and indeed there was a drill hole... a mini drill hole... and sadly not

Feb 20, 2023

When data show up late: Sols 3746-3748

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2023 - Today, I was heading for my computer when my colleagues went off to celebrate the end of the working week. Yes, that's right, planning started at 5 pm in my part of the world (the UK) today. That wa

Feb 17, 2023

Study quantifies global impact of electricity in dust storms on Mars

St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 - Mars is infamous for its intense dust storms, some of which kick up enough dust to be seen by telescopes on Earth. When dust particles rub against each other, as they do in Martian dust storms

Feb 17, 2023

NASA study seeks to understand impact effects on Mars rocks

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 - A NASA study describes how rocks could have been shocked and changed by meteorite impacts, once frequent on ancient Mars. This will improve our analysis of rock samples collected from the Red Plan

Feb 16, 2023

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

Dubai UAE (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 - 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. The orbital transfer w

Feb 16, 2023

Perseverance shows off collection of Mars samples

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 15, 2023 - 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. Even space robots know what pics

Feb 15, 2023

Complex subsurface of Mars imaged by Chinese rover Zhurong

Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 15, 2023 - 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. The images of the Martian

Feb 15, 2023

The first in the universe, but what’s next

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2023 - 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. I had the opportuni

Feb 13, 2023

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

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2023 - 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 fu

Feb 13, 2023

Preparing to drill Dinira: Sols 3737-3738

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2023 - 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. With

Feb 13, 2023

Let’s Drill: Sols 3742-3743

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2023 - 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

Feb 13, 2023

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

Space Coast FL (SPX) Feb 10, 2023 - 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 De

Feb 10, 2023