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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.

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

Spanish lagoon used to better understand wet-to-dry transition of Mars

Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 09, 2023 - In the ongoing search for signs of life on Mars, a new study proposes focusing on time-resolved analogs - dynamic and similar Earth environments where changes can be analyzed over many years.

Feb 9, 2023

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

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 09, 2023 - 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. That's because the rock lay

Feb 9, 2023

Mars rover finds rippled rocks caused by waves: NASA

Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2023 - NASA's Curiosity rover has found wave-rippled rocks - evidence of an ancient lake - in an area of the planet expected to be drier, the US space agency said Wednesday.

Feb 8, 2023

Searching for a Drill Site Near Encanto: Sols 3735-3736

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 06, 2023 - Curiosity successfully followed her tracks and is back near the Encanto drill site! With a beautiful workspace in view, the science and operations team had a busy day of planning on the Marker band

Feb 6, 2023

Enchanting Encanto Calls: Sols 3732-3734

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 05, 2023 - Today we made a three-sol plan for the weekend including contact science, lot of imaging, and a long drive back toward the previously attempted marker band drill target, Encanto. After additional ex

Feb 5, 2023

Mars Helicopter at Three Forks

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2023 - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover took an image on December 18th, 2022, during its 650th day of mission that captured the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity near the base of Jezero Crater's river delta, approxi

Feb 4, 2023

Long-delayed ExoMars mission still dreams of 2028 launch

Paris (AFP) Feb 3, 2023 - War, budget cuts, a pandemic and a crash: For all its trials, Europe's ExoMars mission might be more deserving of the name Perseverance than NASA's Martian rover.

Feb 3, 2023

Curiosity Roundup Sols 3725-3731

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 03, 2023 - The drive in our last plan took us to an area that appeared somewhat smoother and brighter from orbit (as well as from drive direction imaging) on the so-called Marker band that we have been inves

Feb 3, 2023

Cloudy Sols Are Here Again

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 03, 2023 - Mars clouds are very much like Earth's cirrus clouds but thinner. While Earth clouds can contain liquid water, the low temperatures and pressures on Mars only allow for water-ice (and CO2 ice) cloud

Feb 3, 2023

Making the Most of Limited Data: Sols 3278-3279

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 01, 2023 - The Sol 3727 drive went well, positioning the rover at the transition in the Marker Band that was the goal of the drive. As expected, we did not receive enough image data to allow DRT brushing to be

Feb 1, 2023

Researchers complete first real-world study of Martian helicopter dust dynamics

Hoboken NJ (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 - Mars is a dusty planet. From tiny dust devils to vast storms that shroud the planet, dust is a constant challenge for research missions. That was especially true for Ingenuity, the rotorcraft that s

Feb 1, 2023

The faults and valleys of a Martian volcanic highland plateau

Berlin, Germany (DLR) Feb 01, 2023 - January's 'Mars Image of the Month' reveals a geologically complex region on the flanks of Thaumasia Planum, an extensive volcanic plateau in the highlands southeast of the Valles Marineris valley s

Feb 1, 2023

Perseverance completes Mars Sample Depot

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2023 - Less than six weeks after it began, construction of the first sample depot on another world is complete. Confirmation that NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully dropped the 10th and final tube

Jan 31, 2023

Is there life on Mars? Maybe, and it could have dropped its teddy

Los Angeles (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 - Yogi, Paddington and Winnie the Pooh, move over. There's a new bear in town. Or on Mars, anyway.

Jan 31, 2023

Dust bedevils Perseverance with damaging winds

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2023 - Scientists working on the Perseverance Mars 2020 rover mission have uncovered new insights about dust devils on the Red Planet, thanks to the meteorological sensors on the Mars Environmental Dynamic

Jan 29, 2023