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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.

Mars set to wink out behind the Moon

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 05, 2022 - On the night of December 7-8, Mars will be at opposition - opposite the Sun's position in the sky. On that date, Earth is situated directly between Mars and the Sun. The planet is at its brightest,

Dec 5, 2022

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

Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 - 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. New research led by Planetary Science Institute Se

Dec 2, 2022

Analyzing the rhythmically layered bedrock above the marker band: Sols 3669-3670

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 02, 2022 - Curiosity drove ~25 meters back toward the Marker Band from our detour to the Gediz Vallis Ridge and has returned to the rhythmically layered bedrock we observed on Sols 3648-3649. The first t

Dec 2, 2022

What’s in a Vein?

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 01, 2022 - After scraping away the top few layers of stone using its abrading bit, the Perseverance rover has revealed a network of thin, white veins. Could these hold clues about ancient life? Geologica

Dec 1, 2022

Back to the Marker Band – Sols 3667-3668

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 01, 2022 - Still stuffed and feeling thankful our weekend plans were successful! This morning's downlink showed we had more power to play with than was modeled last week, this time due to the SAM activities ru

Dec 1, 2022

3-D Radargram brings new focus to Mars’ north polar cap

Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 29, 2022 - A new enhanced 3-D radar image offer a greatly improved view of the interior of the Martian north polar cap, according to a paper led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Nathaniel Putzig

Nov 29, 2022

NASA awards contract for Mars Sample Return systems

Washington DC (SPX) Nov 26, 2022 - NASA has awarded a contract to Honeybee Robotics LLC of Longmont, Colorado, for the Mars Sample Return (MSR) - Capture, Containment, and Retrieval System (CCRS), Earth Entry System (EES), and Spin E

Nov 26, 2022

A picture is worth a thousand words

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 24, 2022 - From the image Perseverance recently took at Yori Pass, we can see that there are gray rocks scattered on top of a tan colored rock surface below. What do these different colors tell us? As planetar

Nov 24, 2022

Reading the ripples at observation mountain

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 23, 2022 - After spending over 600 sols (days on Mars) exploring the diverse geologic environment of Jezero Crater, collecting drilled rock cores (and one atmospheric sample) along the way, Perseverance recent

Nov 23, 2022

An early start to a long weekend – Sols 3660-3664

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 23, 2022 - On a usual week of Curiosity operations, Friday plans take the longest since they span the whole weekend. This rare Monday morning, however, we're planning five sols to start covering Tuesday - Mond

Nov 23, 2022

Thanksgiving Plan Part Two – Sols 3665-3666

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 23, 2022 - Thanksgiving plan part two would of course include all the traditional pleasures we know - if you are in the US that is, if you are, like me, in Europe then we'll have to wait a few more weeks until

Nov 23, 2022

The first life in our solar system may have been on Mars

Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Nov 21, 2022 - When Mars was a young planet, it was bombarded by ice asteroids delivering water and organic molecules necessary for life to emerge. According to the professor behind a new study, this means that th

Nov 21, 2022

Mars was covered by 300 meter deep oceans

Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Nov 18, 2022 - Mars is called the red planet. But once, it was actually blue and covered in water, bringing us closer to finding out if Mars had ever harboured life. Most researchers agree that there has bee

Nov 18, 2022

Perseverance investigates intriguing Martian bedrock

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2022 - NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has begun exploring an area the science team calls Yori Pass near the base of Jezero Crater's ancient river delta. They've been eager to explore the region for sever

Nov 18, 2022

Space exploration goes underground

Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Nov 17, 2022 - Is there life in Martian caves? It's a good question, but it's not the right question-yet. An international collaboration of scientists led by NAU researcher Jut Wynne has dozens of questions we nee

Nov 17, 2022

Martian dust storms churn up Earth-like clouds

Paris (ESA) Nov 16, 2022 - ESA's Mars Express has revealed that Mars churns up surprisingly Earth-like cloud patterns that are reminiscent of those in our planet's tropical regions. Earth and Mars have vastly different

Nov 16, 2022