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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.

Researchers develop AI method for mapping planets

Creating geological maps of planetary surfaces such as Mars is a complex process.

Jan 11, 2023

Moving along the Marker Band: Sols 3705-3707

Curiosity is continuing to make the most of the new year - both on Earth and on Mars which recently entered Mars Year 37, only a few days before the new year on Earth.

Jan 9, 2023

A New Year on Mars and a Brand-New Workspace: Sols 3702-3704

The team came into our first day of planning for 2023 to learn that all our holiday activities had executed as expected!

Jan 4, 2023

A Scuff for the New Year: Sols 3699-3702

Curiosity has executed two out of the ten sols we planned on Wednesday to cover the rover's activities through the holidays, so the three sols we planned today (sols 3699-3671) won't actually execute on Mars for several days.

Jan 1, 2023

Martian winter wonderland across Ultimi Scopuli

Christmas and winter spirit - also on Mars. Impact craters connected by a striped, coloured ribbon can be seen in the final and very wintry HRSC Mars image of this year.

Dec 27, 2022

The 10 Days of Christmas: Sols 3689-3698

On the first sol of Christmas, Curiosity will bring to us; one APXS analysis, one ChemCam analysis and a multitude of Mastcam, MAHLI and RMI images!

Dec 27, 2022

InSight goes silent as Martian dust and cold ends mission

The InSight Mars mission is history. On 20 December 2022, NASA declared the mission over.

Dec 27, 2022

Christmas craterscape

This beautifully crisp icy scene with a swirling ribbon of rusty red and white striped terrain connecting two large craters wraps up the year on Mars.

Dec 27, 2022

No oxygen required to make these minerals on Mars

When NASA's Mars rovers found manganese oxides in rocks in the Gale and Endeavor craters on Mars in 2014, the discovery sparked some scientists to suggest that the red planet might have once had more oxygen in its atmosphere billions of years ago.

Dec 27, 2022

MOXIE sets consecutive personal bests and Mars records for oxygen production

Perseverance has a unique device near its heart that inhales Mars' atmosphere and exhales pure oxygen.

Dec 27, 2022

NASA explores a winter wonderland on Mars

When winter comes to Mars, the surface is transformed into a truly otherworldly holiday scene.

Dec 27, 2022

Perseverance deposits first sample on Mars surface

A titanium tube containing a rock sample is resting on the Red Planet's surface after being placed there on Dec.

Dec 22, 2022

Leaving the Amapari Drill Site: Sol 3687

Slight change of plans! The drive that Curiosity was supposed to complete over the weekend was pulled from her plan, so the rover started the day at the Amapari drill site.

Dec 22, 2022

NASA retires InSight lander after four years on Mars

NASA said farewell on Wednesday to the InSight lander that spent four years probing the interior of Mars.

Dec 21, 2022

The calm after the rock-toddler-tantrums: Sols 3684-3686

Sometimes, I think Mars rocks are just a bunch of toddlers whom we have told to tidy their play room.

Dec 20, 2022

Sol 3688: Arm Day

We were very glad to come in to today's planning to see the drive placed us in a perfect position to bring out the robotic arm to do some science!

Dec 20, 2022