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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.

Sols 3422-3423 Studying the Silly Place

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 25, 2022 - No, Silly Place hasn't become a new place name, but I totally agree with Ryan, who was yesterday's blogger, that this is not our usual terrain. Would I want to go for a hike there, if I could? Sure,

Mar 25, 2022

China releases images of Martian dust taken by Tianwen-1 orbiter

Beijing (XNA) Mar 25, 2022 - China's Tianwen-1 orbiter has beamed back high-resolution images of Mars, showing dust storms on the surface of the planet. Released by the China National Space Administration on Thursday, the

Mar 25, 2022

Sol 3421: Close Encounter with a Gator

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2022 - Curiosity is investigating the different surface expressions of the Greenheugh pediment, and the weekend drive put the rover right next to some gator-back terrain - some evenly spaced ridges with

Mar 23, 2022

Drilling into Mars with Lasers

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2022 - Perseverance is adding a pop of color to Mars' regular repertoire: purple. The color palette of Mars' surface is one of muted hues. Burnt orange tones reflect the iron-bearing minerals that have rus

Mar 23, 2022

NASA’s Perseverance rover hightails it to Martian Delta

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 19, 2022 - The rover's self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is tryin

Mar 19, 2022

A View Filled With Ventifacts – Sols 3417-3418

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 18, 2022 - Our Monday drive was successful, and we are now fully surrounded by the rocks that cap the Greenheugh pediment. From here we can see hundreds of ventifacts - a term that describes rocks which have b

Mar 18, 2022

NASA’s Angie Jackman works to develop rocket that will bring Mars samples to Earth

Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 - Right now, some 182 million miles separate the red clay of Alabama from the dusty red planet Mars. But groundbreaking flight hardware developed at NASA's Marshall S

Mar 18, 2022

A Day in the Life of a T-DOC

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2022 - It takes a team to plan Perseverance's daily activities, including people in many different roles. One of these roles is called the tactical documentarian, or T-DOC. The tactical documentarian takes

Mar 17, 2022

Russian-European Mars mission suspended over Ukraine war

Paris (AFP) March 17, 2022 - A Russian-European mission to land a rover on Mars has been suspended due to the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, the European Space Agency announced Thursday, as Moscow said it regretted the bitter decision.

Mar 17, 2022

NASA extends Ingenuity Helicopter Mission

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2022 - NASA has extended flight operations of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter through September. In the months ahead, history's first aircraft to operate from the surface of another world will support the Pe

Mar 17, 2022

Sols 3414-3416: Progress!

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2022 - Over the weekend, we completed the planned drive with a relatively easy (by Greenheugh Pediment standards) traverse in the pediment. With lots of bedrock in the workspace, we quickly identified a

Mar 17, 2022

MAHLI tries again on Sols 3412-3414 for detailed closeup

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 15, 2022 - Due to an issue with the Sol 3410 and 3411 plans, parts of the Sol 3410 plan didn't execute and the planned drive did not occur. But the Sol 3409 contact science activities completed successfully, r

Mar 15, 2022

Sol 3411: Bonanza

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 11, 2022 - After significant churn in Monday's planning, today turned out to be a single sol's worth of untargeted science. That left GEO with only a ChemCam AEGIS activity, where ChemCam automatically identif

Mar 11, 2022

Moving right along – slowly but surely during Sols 3409-3410

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 10, 2022 - We are continuing to slowly move through this very challenging terrain - over the weekend we made it about 4 meters before the drive stopped when the rover sensed more difficulty. The attached image

Mar 10, 2022

Challenges await sample-return expedition to Mars

Beijing (XNA) Mar 08, 2022 - Chinese scientists and engineers will need to solve a host of technological challenges to accomplish an ambitious sample-return mission to Mars, said Wu Weiren, a key figure in the country's deep-sp

Mar 8, 2022

A River Runs Through It: Onward to the Delta

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2022 - The delta is calling and we must go! With one Earth year in its rearview mirror, the Perseverance rover has been racking up the odometry en route to the site of it's next science campaign. It's been

Mar 7, 2022