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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.

Let’s go to Mars

Bethesda MD (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 - 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. Even before that f

Jul 11, 2022

Everyone gets to savour the Avanavero flavours: Sols 3528-3529

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 10, 2022 - Both the CheMin and SAM instruments have dined on the Avanavero drill samples and have decided their appetites are sated. CheMin has completed X-ray diffraction mineralogical analysis of the Avanave

Jul 10, 2022

A Plan Fit for a Rover Sols 3525-3527

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 07, 2022 - Tosol's plan included a little bit of everything, with more than four hours of remote science spread over three sols. However, the rover is still in the midst of the Avanavero drill campaign, so all

Jul 7, 2022

Humans on Mars: Pathways toward sustainable settlement

Bremen, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 - Is sustainable human exploration of Mars possible? How will humans affect the new environment? Around 60 researchers from the University of Bremen and other institutes are investigating these questi

Jul 7, 2022

Sometimes things get complicated

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 07, 2022 - Perseverance has a big job to do while roving across Jezero and exploring the Delta Front, which is campaign #2 of the mission. One of the major goals of this mission (and campaign) is searching for

Jul 7, 2022

Eyeing Kukenan – Sols 3519-3524

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 01, 2022 - Curiosity is continuing to proceed through our pre-planned checklist of activities that we've made for drill campaigns. The team is currently waiting for the downlink that contains data from CheMin'

Jul 1, 2022

My Favorite Martian Image: ‘Enchanted’ Rocks at Jezero Crater

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 30, 2022 - Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance's Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she's looking for. Ask any space explorer, and they'll have a favorite photograph or two f

Jun 30, 2022

Historic Mars mission completes all preset tasks

Beijing (XNA) Jun 30, 2022 - Tianwen 1, China's historic Mars mission, has accomplished all its preset scientific tasks, according to the China National Space Administration. The administration said on Wednesday that the

Jun 30, 2022

Help NASA scientists find clouds on Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 29, 2022 - NASA scientists hope to solve a fundamental mystery about Mars' atmosphere, and you can help. They've organized a project called Cloudspotting on Mars that invites the public to identify Martian clo

Jun 29, 2022

Digging into our new drill hole: Sols 3517-3518

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 29, 2022 - After a successful drilling of Avanavero, the team is ready to dig even deeper into our investigation of this new drill target. Tosol's plan includes an important part of this process: our initial a

Jun 29, 2022

NASA’s Curiosity takes inventory of key life ingredient on Mars

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 28, 2022 - Scientists using data from NASA's Curiosity rover measured the total organic carbon - a key component in the molecules of life - in Martian rocks for the first time. Total organic carbon is one of

Jun 28, 2022

NASA Experiment Suggests Need to Dig Deep for Evidence of Life on Mars

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 28, 2022 - According to a new NASA laboratory experiment, rovers may have to dig about 6.6 feet (two meters) or more under the Martian surface to find signs of ancient life because ionizing radiation from spac

Jun 28, 2022

Fine-grained rocks at Hogwallow Flats

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2022 - Perseverance's exploration of the Hawksbill Gap area of the Jezero Delta continues! The rover has abraded at two different locations over the last few weeks. First, the rover abraded in the Devil's

Jun 24, 2022

Curiosity latest drilling attempt a success – Sols 3514-3516

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2022 - The MSL team is very happy this week, because our first drill attempt since last November was successful! This Front Hazcam image shows the drill being extracted from the new drill hole, which is su

Jun 24, 2022

Drilling Again – Sols 3512-3513

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2022 - Today was an exciting day of planning (and not just because of the thunderstorms here in southern California!). We planned a full drill of Avanavero, our first drill in over 6 months! The MAHLI imag

Jun 24, 2022

NASA Mars Orbiter Releasing One of Its Last Rainbow-Colored Maps

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2022 - Scientists are about to get a new look at Mars, thanks to a multicolored 5.6-gigapixel map. Covering 86% of the Red Planet's surface, the map reveals the distribution of dozens of key minerals. By l

Jun 24, 2022