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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

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

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

Both the CheMin and SAM instruments have dined on the Avanavero drill samples and have decided their appetites are sated.

Jul 10, 2022

A Plan Fit for a Rover Sols 3525-3527

Tosol's plan included a little bit of everything, with more than four hours of remote science spread over three sols.

Jul 7, 2022

Sometimes things get complicated

Perseverance has a big job to do while roving across Jezero and exploring the Delta Front, which is campaign #2 of the mission.

Jul 7, 2022

Humans on Mars: Pathways toward sustainable settlement

Is sustainable human exploration of Mars possible? How will humans affect the new environment?

Jul 7, 2022

Eyeing Kukenan – Sols 3519-3524

Curiosity is continuing to proceed through our pre-planned checklist of activities that we've made for drill campaigns.

Jul 1, 2022

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

Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance's Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she's looking for.

Jun 30, 2022

Historic Mars mission completes all preset tasks

Tianwen 1, China's historic Mars mission, has accomplished all its preset scientific tasks, according to the China National Space Administration.

Jun 30, 2022

Help NASA scientists find clouds on Mars

NASA scientists hope to solve a fundamental mystery about Mars' atmosphere, and you can help.

Jun 29, 2022

Digging into our new drill hole: Sols 3517-3518

After a successful drilling of Avanavero, the team is ready to dig even deeper into our investigation of this new drill target.

Jun 29, 2022

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

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.

Jun 28, 2022

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

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…

Jun 28, 2022

Curiosity latest drilling attempt a success – Sols 3514-3516

The MSL team is very happy this week, because our first drill attempt since last November was successful!

Jun 24, 2022

Multiple Lab Analyses of Antarctic Minerals Offer a Better Understanding of Mars

Results of multiple and complementary lab analyses of minerals found in samples of material from Antarctica could give scientists a better understanding of the…

Jun 24, 2022

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

Scientists are about to get a new look at Mars, thanks to a multicolored 5.6-gigapixel map.

Jun 24, 2022

Fine-grained rocks at Hogwallow Flats

Perseverance's exploration of the Hawksbill Gap area of the Jezero Delta continues!

Jun 24, 2022