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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 Express peers into Mars’ ‘Grand Canyon’

The latest image release from ESA's Mars Express takes us over two ruptures in the martian crust that form part of the mighty Valles Marineris canyon system.

Jul 21, 2022

A chip off the old block: Sols 3534-3536

We have been making our way to a large boulder "Ilha Nova Destino" (which from the distance looks remarkably like the Hogwarts Sorting Hat from Harry Potter!

Jul 20, 2022

A helping hand for Mars

The mission to return martian samples back to Earth will see a European 2.5 metre-long robotic arm pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to a rocket for an historic interplanetary delivery.

Jul 20, 2022

Futuristic Space Habitat lands at Institut Auf Dem Rosenberg

Pioneering Swiss boarding school Institut auf dem Rosenberg unveiled today - the anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's famous moon landing - the…

Jul 20, 2022

A Rover-Sized Boulder Sols 3532-3533

Curiosity is back on the road, but some interesting boulders caught our attention and led to a short detour.

Jul 17, 2022

Ingenuity Postpones Flights Until August

It's now dust season and winter on Mars, meaning there's more dust in the air and less sunlight to help recharge Ingenuity's batteries.

Jul 17, 2022

Moving Right Along – Sol 3531

Since we finished up with our "Avanavero" drill activities yesterday, we're officially back on the Martian road to the layered sulfate-bearing unit!

Jul 14, 2022

Source of ancient Martian rocks found using Perth supercomputer

Five to ten million years ago an asteroid smashed into Mars. It created a massive crater and propelled a chunk of ancient Martian crust into space as a new meteorite, which eventually crashed into Africa.

Jul 13, 2022

Perseverance takes first core from the Delta

Perseverance has taken its first sample from the Jezero delta!

Jul 13, 2022

Machine learning ‘phones home’ for famous Martian rock

New Curtin-led research has pinpointed the exact home of the oldest and most famous Martian meteorite for the first time ever, offering critical geological clues about the earliest origins of Mars.

Jul 13, 2022

ESA fully cuts Mars mission ties with Russia, angering Moscow

The European Space Agency has officially terminated cooperation with Russia on a mission to put a rover on Mars, with Russia's space chief furiously responding by banning cosmonauts on the ISS from using a Europe-made robotic arm.

Jul 13, 2022

NASA’s Perseverance Scouts Mars Sample Return Campaign Landing Sites

The six-wheeled explorer has inspected a stretch of the Red Planet to see if it is flat enough for NASA's next Mars lander.

Jul 12, 2022

Scientists find oldest Martian meteorite’s original home

Scientists announced Tuesday they had found the crater from which the oldest known Martian meteorite was originally blasted towards Earth, a discovery that could provide clues into how our own planet was formed.

Jul 12, 2022

MIT design for Mars propellant production trucks wins NASA competition

Using the latest technologies currently available, it takes over 25,000 tons of rocket hardware and propellant to land 50 tons of anything on the planet Mars.

Jul 12, 2022

Leaving Avanavero – Sol 3530

The MAHLI images acquired on Sol 3528 confirm that the APXS was well placed over the Avanavero drill tailings, and the APXS data look good so we are ready to drive away from this location.

Jul 12, 2022

Let’s go to Mars

Sending humans to Mars has been a dream of scientists and a large part of the population ever since Nicolaus Copernicus first postulated that it was a planet, about 500 years ago.

Jul 11, 2022