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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.

NASA’s Perseverance rover arrives at Delta for new science campaign

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 20, 2022 - After collecting eight rock-core samples from its first science campaign and completing a record-breaking, 31-Martian-day (or sol) dash across about 3 miles (5 kilometers) of Mars, NASA's Perseveran

Apr 20, 2022

Perseverance at the Delta

Washington DC (SPX) Apr 19, 2022 - Last week's blog talked about the rapid traverse of Perseverance to the Delta. This weeks blog entry will talk about the Delta itself, and why it is something worth rapidly traversing towards!

Apr 19, 2022

Sols 3444-3445: The curious case of cross-cutting ridges

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 15, 2022 - Tosol's plan is focusing on examination of the linear ridges that cross-cut the local terrain. These raised ridges look like boxes with their lids cut off and mostly buried in the local bedrock, and

Apr 15, 2022

Sols 3446-3448: Weekend workload

Washington DC (SPX) Apr 14, 2022 - Due to some complex terrain, the rover's last drive came up about ten meters short of the target destination. The rover's unexpected parking orientation unfortunately will not allow our usual uplink

Apr 14, 2022

Digging into drill data takes perseverance

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 14, 2022 - Drilling is on hold while the rover focuses on driving, so the sampling team is off studying the data we have acquired so far. What kind of information do we get from the drill, and how do the rocks

Apr 14, 2022

NASA and UAE to share Mars mission datasets

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 13, 2022 - NASA's MAVEN mission and the United Arab Emirates' Hope Probe mission are paving the way toward greater scientific collaboration and data exchange between the two Mars orbiters. A new partners

Apr 13, 2022

Divide and conquer: Mars rovers to be superseded by swarms of two-wheeled robots

Moscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 13, 2022 - Skoltech scientists have proposed a concept for a modular Mars exploration rover. Leveraging the power of cooperative robotics, the new system described in an Acta Astronautica paper consists of fou

Apr 13, 2022

Sols 3442-3443: Deoch-an-Doris

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2022 - In Scots Gaelic, deoch-an-doris loosely means one for the road. Today we planned one more set of investigations on the fascinating Feorachas outcrop before we leave it behind forever. We f

Apr 12, 2022

Got a hitch in our giddyup – Sols 3437-3438

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 08, 2022 - We successfully drove further down off of the Greenheugh pediment as we head toward smoother driving pathways downhill. However, the chaotic jumble of terrain we encountered in the final few rolls

Apr 8, 2022

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover reroutes away from ‘Gator-Back’ rocks

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 08, 2022 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spent most of March climbing the Greenheugh Pediment - a gentle slope capped by rubbly sandstone. The rover briefly summited this feature's north face two years ago; no

Apr 8, 2022

Sol 3436: Motion Accomplished

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2022 - There was good news when we came in for planning today - our remote mast recovery and all our other activities completed successfully, including the drive. Today I took on the role of Suprata

Apr 7, 2022

Citizen scientists help map ridge networks on Mars

Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 - Over the last two decades, scientists have discovered unusual ridge networks on Mars using images from spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet. How and why the ridges formed and what clues they may provi

Apr 7, 2022

Balancing Risks in the Seitah Region for Flight 24

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 06, 2022 - Ingenuity continued its journey towards the river delta this weekend with Flight 24. This flight took place Sunday, April 3, and the data arrived back later that evening. The flight was the fourth o

Apr 6, 2022

Planetary scientist helps equip rover Perseverance with 4 of the 5 human senses

West Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 06, 2022 - For two decades, Roger Wiens has built instruments to give humans eyes and a nose on Mars - and now he's helping add ears as well. Wiens, a professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Scien

Apr 6, 2022

NASA’s Pioneering Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Awarded Collier Trophy

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 06, 2022 - The first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet has garnered an award whose past recipients make up a timeline of aerospace innovation and achievement. The National

Apr 6, 2022

Sol 3435: Maybe We Should Switch Names

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 05, 2022 - It has been a frustrating week for the Curiosity science and engineering teams. While we have a better understanding of how to recover the minor Remote Sensing Mast (RSM) issue that we encountered a

Apr 5, 2022