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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.

Perseverance rover to begin building Martian sample depot

In the coming days, NASA's Perseverance rover is expected to begin building the first sample depot on another world.

Dec 18, 2022

Seismic waves revealed possible past meteoroid impact

The largest earthquake ever detected on Mars has revealed layers in its crust that could indicate past collision with a massive object, such as a meteoroid.

Dec 18, 2022

Sols 3682-3683: Perspective

In yesterday's blog, Natalie Moore wrote of our continued attempts to drill "Amapari" and word from our beloved rover that our drill was still on the ground when data arrived from Mars.

Dec 15, 2022

Mars’ thin and turbulent atmosphere leads to curiously sized dunes

Among the mountainous dunes and small, undulating ripples of Mars' desert-like surface are sand structures, intermediate in size, that are not quite like anything on Earth.

Dec 15, 2022

Experiencing a Dust Devil

Recently a combination of instruments on the Perseverance rover has experienced a dust devil in a new way.

Dec 14, 2022

Sound of a dust devil on Mars recorded for first time

The sound of a dust devil on Mars was recorded for the first time as the eye of the whirlwind swept over the top of NASA's Perseverance rover, a new study said Tuesday.

Dec 13, 2022

Let’s try that again Amapari: Sols 3677-3679

On Wednesday, we uplinked a drill plan, to drill the target "Amapari" in the Marker Band.

Dec 12, 2022

Sol 3676 Another: ‘Bore-ing’ Day on Mars

After yesterday's check-out, Curiosity is GO to attempt to make our 37th drill hole on Mars.

Dec 9, 2022

Evaluating a Possible Drill Location

The weekend drive went well and Curiosity is back on top of the marker band, investigating some intriguing rippled bedrock.

Dec 9, 2022

Tiny underwater sand dunes may shed light on larger terrestrial and Martian formations

The English poet William Blake famously implored readers to "see the world in a grain of sand." In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing, scientists…

Dec 8, 2022

NASA’s Perseverance rover gets the dirt on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec.

Dec 8, 2022

Martian dust devil analogues in the Mojave Desert #ASA183

In the Mojave Desert, the sun beats down on the ground and makes pockets of low pressure.

Dec 8, 2022

Giant mantle plume reveals Mars is more active than previously thought

On Earth, shifting tectonic plates reshuffle the planet's surface and make for a dynamic interior, so the absence of such processes on Mars led many to think of it as a dead planet, where not much happened in the past 3 billion years.

Dec 6, 2022

Second Time’s the Charm: Sols 3671-3673

As happens occasionally, our previous plan did not execute quite as expected. There was an issue with the rover's avionics in Wednesday's plan just…

Dec 6, 2022

Mars set to wink out behind the Moon

On the night of December 7-8, Mars will be at opposition - opposite the Sun's position in the sky.

Dec 5, 2022

NASA May Have Landed on a Martian Megatsunami Deposit Nearly 50 Years Ago

When NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of Mars nearly 50 years ago, its cameras imaged a boulder-strewn surface of elusive origin.

Dec 2, 2022