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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.

Ejecting Mars’ Pebbles

The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined in last week's blog.

Jan 22, 2022

Perseverance’s first year on Mars: Purdue professor, mission team member looks at what is ahead

Almost one year into the Mars rover mission, accomplishing its goal is on the horizon for Purdue University's Briony Horgan and the Perseverance team.

Jan 21, 2022

Sols 3362-3363: Sedimentologist’s Delight

After a few sols of challenges that prevented us from getting close-up MAHLI imaging of this dark outcrop in front of us, today we were finally able to plan the contact science that we were hoping for.

Jan 21, 2022

Sol 3361: Keeping the Dog Leashed

Our initial plan was to conduct a MAHLI "dog's eye" imaging sequence on the beautiful Panari outcrop that we are parked before.

Jan 20, 2022

Grounded: First Flight Delay Due to Inclement Weather on Another World

The atmosphere of Mars is much less dense than Earth's; however, the Mars climate shares many similarities to Earth: seasons, changing winds, ice clouds, and dust storms, among others.

Jan 20, 2022

Sols 3357-3360: Edging Closer and Closer to Panari

We continue to document rocks similar to what we saw at "The Prow," a dark appearing rock outcrop with amazing sedimentary structures and details.

Jan 19, 2022

Steady driving towards ExoMars launch

The first simulation of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover driving off its landing platform closed out an incredible year of preparations as the mission now marches with confidence towards a September launch.

Jan 18, 2022

Newly discovered carbon may yield clues to ancient Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and since then has roamed Gale Crater taking samples and sending the results back home for researchers to interpret.

Jan 18, 2022

Curiosity measures intriguing carbon signature on Mars

After analyzing powdered rock samples collected from the surface of Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover, scientists have announced that several of the samples are rich in a type of carbon that on Earth is associated with biological processes.

Jan 18, 2022

Martian Meteorite’s organic materials origin not biological

Organic molecules found in a meteorite that hurtled to Earth from Mars were synthesized during interactions between water and rocks that occurred on the Red…

Jan 14, 2022

Pebbles before mountains

NASA's Mars 2020 mission team has been working methodically and thoroughly, making good progress on understanding the best path forward to remove the uninvited pebbles from Perseverance's bit carousel.

Jan 14, 2022

Sols 3355-2256: Closer to the Prow

The "bump" planned on Sol 3354 to move the rover closer to "The Prow" outcrop was successful, placing the front wheels very close to the base of the outcrop.

Jan 14, 2022

Rolling stones on Mars

There's more to this image of Mars than first meets the eye: nestled in the detail of the cliff face that cuts through this scene are signs of geology in motion.

Jan 14, 2022

Widespread megaripple activity on Martian North Pole

Megaripples, intermediate-scale bedforms caused by the action of the wind, have been studied extensively and thought to be largely inactive relics of past climates, save for a few exceptions.

Jan 13, 2022

Sol 3354: Tantalizingly Out of Reach

Today Curiosity is doing a little bit of everything: some contact science, some targeted science, and a little driving.

Jan 13, 2022

Sol 3350-3352: A Rock Under the Wheel

We are back into our planning routine after the Christmas break. In fact, this was the third plan in the new year, and the third plan that Curiosity executes within the Roraima quadrant my colleague introduced a few days ago.

Jan 12, 2022