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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.

Tantalising tectonics

Paris (ESA) Apr 29, 2022 - This network of long grooves and scratches forms part of a giant fault system on Mars known as Tantalus Fossae, and is shown here as seen by ESA's Mars Express. At first glance, these features

Apr 29, 2022

Mars Helicopter spots landing rig and chute from Perseverance

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 28, 2022 - NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that helped the agency's Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space an

Apr 28, 2022

Campaign #2: The Delta Front

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 28, 2022 - This week on Mars, Perseverance officially began the Delta Front Campaign. This second campaign of the mission commenced on April 18th, 2022, the 415th sol since landing. Each campaign represents

Apr 28, 2022

Solar beats nuclear at many potential settlement sites on Mars

Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 - The high efficiency, light weight and flexibility of the latest solar cell technology means photovoltaics could provide all the power needed for an extended mission to Mars, or even a permanent sett

Apr 27, 2022

Back Through the Buttes! Sols 3456-3457

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 27, 2022 - Our weekend drive brought us successfully to our planned stop. The priority in this Touch and Go drive plan is to image the buttes which surround us. Mastcam will image Blackcraig and Maringma b

Apr 27, 2022

Carbon dioxide glaciers are moving at the Martian south pole

Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 - Glaciers of carbon dioxide are moving, creating deposits kilometers thick today across the south polar region of Mars, something that could have been going on more than 600,000 years, a paper by Pla

Apr 27, 2022

Enigmatic rocks on Mars show evidence of a violent origin

Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 - Determining the history of Mars, how it formed and evolved over time, has been a goal of both orbiter and rover missions to the Red Planet for decades. Analyzing data from several of these Mars miss

Apr 27, 2022

Two largest Marsquakes to date recorded from planet’s far side

Albany CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 - The seismometer placed on Mars by NASA's InSight lander has recorded its two largest seismic events to date: a magnitude 4.2 and a magnitude 4.1 marsquake. The pair are the first recorded events to

Apr 26, 2022

Meteorites from the red desert of Australia support search for life on the red planet Mars

Lucas Heights, Australia (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 - Monash University, University of Queensland and Australian National University researchers have used ANSTO's Australian Synchrotron in their study of meteorites found on Earth that could be used in

Apr 26, 2022

New geological research shows Mars may have been more habitable than we thought

Toronot, Canada (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 - New research by Dr. Steve Grasby, Research Scientist at Natural Resource Canada's Geological Survey of Canada, could indicate a more habitable environment than previously thought for the red planet,

Apr 26, 2022

Mars may have less water than previously estimated

Austin TX (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 - Researchers from the Oden Institute and Jackson School of Geosciences have developed an improved model for planet-wide groundwater flow prediction on Mars that is not only more accurate but, accordi

Apr 26, 2022

Rad Rock Rumblings Sols 3453-3555

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 26, 2022 - Entering the weekend, we have a few more 'rad' rocks we'd like to get some science on before we drive farther away from the Greenheugh pediment and begin our journey again up Mt. Sharp. Starti

Apr 26, 2022

Perseverance starts Jezero Delta campaign

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 22, 2022 - We made it! Perseverance is at the delta, and gracing us with stunning images to pour over. Mars 2020 is officially out of Rapid Traverse mode, where we put the pedal to the metal and focused on d

Apr 22, 2022

Curiosity goes oops Sols 3451-3452

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 22, 2022 - Not that it matters, but exactly 100 sols ago, on January 7th, we were planning sols 3351 and 3352, and it was this blogger's turn to report on what was happening. Apparently, we were marvelling at

Apr 22, 2022

Using bacteria to build settlements on Mars

New Delhi, India (SPX) Apr 21, 2022 - In collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has developed a sustainable method for making bricks out of Mar

Apr 21, 2022

Sols 3449-3450: Comin’ Down the Mountain

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 20, 2022 - After spending the last few weeks exploring the top of the nearby pediment surface, Curiosity is now making her way back down from the pediment and towards an alternate route to Gediz Vallis Ridge.

Apr 20, 2022