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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.

Pausing to take in the view: Sols 3710-3711

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2023 - At this point in the mission, the team is very good at responding to tactical surprises. Today, we did not receive the necessary downlink to proceed with the nominal plan. Fortunately, we received e

Jan 12, 2023

In search of a new marker band drill site: Sols 3708-3709

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2023 - We continue to characterize the Marker Band and the bedrock just below it, with the aim of understanding the origin of the Marker Band. For today's two-sol plan, in an area below the Marker Band, we

Jan 12, 2023

Researchers develop AI method for mapping planets

Bremen, Germany (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 - Creating geological maps of planetary surfaces such as Mars is a complex process. From data collection to data analysis to publication in different formats - the production of maps is based on a tim

Jan 11, 2023

Moving along the Marker Band: Sols 3705-3707

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 09, 2023 - 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. After a successful drive along

Jan 9, 2023

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

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 04, 2023 - The team came into our first day of planning for 2023 to learn that all our holiday activities had executed as expected! As Curiosity ages, we are thankful that she continues to do amazing science o

Jan 4, 2023

A Scuff for the New Year: Sols 3699-3702

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 01, 2023 - 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 execut

Jan 1, 2023

The 10 Days of Christmas: Sols 3689-3698

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022 - 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! On the second sol of Christmas, Curiosity will br

Dec 27, 2022

Christmas craterscape

Paris (ESA) Dec 27, 2022 - 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. The High Resolution Stereo Imaging camera on bo

Dec 27, 2022

Martian winter wonderland across Ultimi Scopuli

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 - 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. We wish all readers of our m

Dec 27, 2022

InSight goes silent as Martian dust and cold ends mission

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 - The InSight Mars mission is history. On 20 December 2022, NASA declared the mission over. The two attempts from Mission Control Centre at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern Californi

Dec 27, 2022

NASA explores a winter wonderland on Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022 - When winter comes to Mars, the surface is transformed into a truly otherworldly holiday scene. Snow, ice, and frost accompany the season's sub-zero temperatures. Some of the coldest of these occur a

Dec 27, 2022

No oxygen required to make these minerals on Mars

St. Louis MO (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 - 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 mor

Dec 27, 2022

MOXIE sets consecutive personal bests and Mars records for oxygen production

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022 - Perseverance has a unique device near its heart that inhales Mars' atmosphere and exhales pure oxygen. This device is named MOXIE, the Mars Oxygen In Situ Resource Utilization Experiment. The

Dec 27, 2022

Perseverance deposits first sample on Mars surface

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 22, 2022 - A titanium tube containing a rock sample is resting on the Red Planet's surface after being placed there on Dec. 21 by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Over the next two months, the rover will deposi

Dec 22, 2022

Leaving the Amapari Drill Site: Sol 3687

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 22, 2022 - 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. We will recover our ChemC

Dec 22, 2022

NASA retires InSight lander after four years on Mars

Washington (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 - NASA said farewell on Wednesday to the InSight lander that spent four years probing the interior of Mars.

Dec 21, 2022