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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.

Gediz Vallis Ridge Rising: Sols 3650-3652

Curiosity is continuing to climb towards a Gediz Vallis ridge viewing spot, and we can already get a glimpse of it rising in the distance.

Nov 11, 2022

Mars Express sets data relay record

ESA's Mars Express spacecraft recently conducted tests in which it relayed data gathered by NASA's Perseverance rover back to Earth.

Nov 11, 2022

Perseverance activities at Amalik outcrop

On Sol 579 (October 6, 2022), Perseverance collected a sedimentary sample named "Mageik," the mission's 14th rock core, from the Amalik outcrop in the Enchanted Lake region at the base of the Jezero delta.

Nov 10, 2022

MAVEN observes Martian light show caused by major solar storm

For the first time in its eight years orbiting Mars, NASA's MAVEN mission witnessed two different types of ultraviolet aurorae simultaneously, the result of solar storms that began on Aug.

Nov 10, 2022

Losing the Rhythm – Sols 3648-3649

Curiosity was parked amongst beautiful, rhythmically layered bedrock in our previous workspace.

Nov 10, 2022

Earth’s oldest stromatolites and the search for life on Mars

The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have often been subjected to advanced alteration and metamorphism.

Nov 8, 2022

University of Southern Queensland scientist unveils further proof of salty water on Mars

It may be known as a rocky, red planet but evidence is mounting that salty water exists at the base of polar deposits on Mars.

Nov 7, 2022

Martian Sausages: Sols 3641-3642

We are perched just below the "Marker Band," a thin dark band whose origin is unclear.

Nov 7, 2022

Perseverance seals up Sample tube 14.

The team is making progress identifying and implementing a fix that will allow a seal to cap off the rover's latest rock sample, which was collected at…

Nov 7, 2022

Mars’s crust more complex, evolved than previously thought

Early crust on Mars may be more complex than previously thought-and it may even be similar to our own planet's original crust.

Nov 4, 2022

Can’t Touch This: Sol 3640

We arrived at the spectacular workspace pictured above, but what made it spectacular - rocks - is what also made it tricky.

Nov 2, 2022

Meteorite impacts on the surface of Mars provide new details of the planet’s crust

Data from two meteorite impacts on Mars recorded by NASA's InSight spacecraft provide new insights into the structure of the Martian crust.

Nov 1, 2022

Let the Detour Begin – To Gediz Vallis Ridge We Go: Sols 3637-3638

This is a two sol weekend plan, as Saturday is a soliday. On the first sol, we characterize the workspace in front of us and then drive on the second sol to a new workspace.

Oct 31, 2022

ANU scientists use deep planetary scan to confirm Martian core

Seismologists from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a new method to scan the deep interior of planets in our solar system to confirm whether they have a core at the heart of their existence.

Oct 28, 2022

Lumpy Bumpy: Sols 3635-3636

In today's plan, we got to exercise our combined APXS-MAHLI touch and go capability.

Oct 28, 2022

Magma on Mars likely

Since 2018, when the NASA InSight Mission deployed the SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars, seismologists and geophysicists at ETH Zurich have been listening to the seismic pings of more than 1,300 marsquakes.

Oct 28, 2022