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Mars Daily Editorial Team

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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.

String theory: NASA Mars rover discovers mystery object

Washington (AFP) July 21, 2022 - Is it tumbleweed? A piece of fishing line? Spaghetti?

Jul 21, 2022

Unequal siblings: Ius and Tithonium Chasma

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 - When NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft reached Mars more than 50 years ago at the end of 1971 and began to explore the planet from orbit, there was initially great disappointment at the control centre: vi

Jul 21, 2022

Mars Express peers into Mars’ ‘Grand Canyon’

Paris (ESA) Jul 21, 2022 - 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. Valles Marineris cuts across Mars

Jul 21, 2022

Futuristic Space Habitat lands at Institut Auf Dem Rosenberg

Hohenweg, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 20, 2022 - Pioneering Swiss boarding school Institut auf dem Rosenberg unveiled today - the anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's famous moon landing - the Rosenberg Space Habitat (RSH), which will s

Jul 20, 2022

A chip off the old block: Sols 3534-3536

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 20, 2022 - 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!) and landed about 3 metres back from the

Jul 20, 2022

A helping hand for Mars

Paris (ESA) Jul 20, 2022 - 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 int

Jul 20, 2022

Ingenuity Postpones Flights Until August

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2022 - 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. Dust levels are expected to subside later in July, so the team

Jul 17, 2022

A Rover-Sized Boulder Sols 3532-3533

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2022 - Curiosity is back on the road, but some interesting boulders caught our attention and led to a short detour. The team was already planning to divert to the southwest to get some imaging of nearby cl

Jul 17, 2022

Moving Right Along – Sol 3531

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2022 - Since we finished up with our Avanavero drill activities yesterday, we're officially back on the Martian road to the layered sulfate-bearing unit! Today we just planned a single sol's worth of act

Jul 14, 2022

Source of ancient Martian rocks found using Perth supercomputer

Perth, Australia (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 - 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 A

Jul 13, 2022

ESA fully cuts Mars mission ties with Russia, angering Moscow

Paris (AFP) July 13, 2022 - 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

Machine learning ‘phones home’ for famous Martian rock

Perth, Australia (SPX) Jul 13, 2022 - 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

Perseverance takes first core from the Delta

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2022 - Perseverance has taken its first sample from the Jezero delta! Since arriving at the delta, the rover has been observing and abrading different rocks to inform whether they are good candidate

Jul 13, 2022

MIT design for Mars propellant production trucks wins NASA competition

Boston MA (SPX) Jul 12, 2022 - 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. So, for NASA's first crewed mission to

Jul 12, 2022

Leaving Avanavero – Sol 3530

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2022 - 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. But

Jul 12, 2022

Scientists find oldest Martian meteorite’s original home

Paris (AFP) July 12, 2022 - 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