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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.

Curiosity sends a picture postcard from Mars

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 24, 2021 - NASA's Curiosity rover captured a remarkable image from its most recent perch on the side of Mars' Mount Sharp. The mission team was so inspired by the beauty of the landscape, they combined two ver

Nov 24, 2021

ASU team celebrates 20th anniversary of NASA’s Mars Odyssey Orbiter arrival at the Red Planet

Tempe AZ (SPX) Nov 23, 2021 - This year, NASA is observing the 20th anniversary of the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter, the longest-lived spacecraft at the Red Planet; and a mission that has helped locate water ice, find landing sites

Nov 23, 2021

Rocky roads through Lanzarote

Paris (ESA) Nov 22, 2021 - Take away the clouds, bulk up the humans with suits and add an orange-red filter and this could be an image from a future mission to Mars. The actual site, the Corona lava tube in Lanzarote, S

Nov 22, 2021

Mars helicopter Ingenuity completes 16th flight

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 22, 2021 - NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed its 16th flight over the weekend, the space agency announced Monday.

Nov 22, 2021

NASA’s Perseverance captures challenging flight by Mars Helicopter

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2021 - Video footage from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 13th flight on Sept. 4 provides the most detailed look yet of the rotorcraft in action. Ingenuity is curren

Nov 19, 2021

Twin of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover begins terrain tests

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2021 - OPTIMISM, the full-scale engineering model of Perseverance, begins a series of rigorous tests to assess the risk of potential driving hazards on the surface of the Red Planet. On a recent day

Nov 18, 2021

Ingenuity makes short hop to the north for Flight 16

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2021 - With Flight 15, Ingenuity began the journey back towards Wright Brothers Field at Octavia E. Butler Landing, the site where Perseverance touched down with Ingenuity in February. This flight was

Nov 18, 2021

Life on Mars search could be misled by false fossils

Edinburgh UK (SPX) Nov 18, 2021 - Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests. Rocks on Mars may

Nov 18, 2021

Curiosity continues to dine on Zechstein drill fines

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2021 - The SAM and CheMin instrument teams decided that they did not require further analyses of the Zechstein drill sample. It is the turn of the arm-mounted MAHLI and APXS instruments to have their tas

Nov 18, 2021

Curiosity helping make Mars safer for astronauts

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2021 - A radiation sensor aboard the spacecraft is providing new data on the health risks humans would face on the surface. Could lava tubes, caves, or subsurface habitats offer safe refuge for future astr

Nov 16, 2021

Still lots to do at the Zechstein drill locale

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2021 - We are in the midst of the Zechstein drilling campaign. The SAM team are eagerly waiting for the results of their weekend EGA analysis on the drilled sample. Dependin

Nov 16, 2021

Mars – or Arrakis

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2021 - Who hates deep sand traps more than golfers? Mars rover drivers (and probably Fremen too). When your vehicle is well over 50 million kilometers away from the nearest tow company, getting your wheels

Nov 15, 2021

Curiosity powers on with extra energy for Martian science

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 12, 2021 - When the operations team logged on today, we were prepared to pick up where Monday's team had left off in Curiosity's ongoing drill campaign at Zechstein. But then we received some news: even though

Nov 12, 2021

Astronaut training in the land of volcanoes

Paris (ESA) Nov 11, 2021 - A team of astronauts, engineers and geologists is travelling to Spain's Canary Islands, one of Europe's volcanic hot spots, to learn how to best explore the Moon and Mars during ESA's Pangaea geolog

Nov 11, 2021

Docking the Perseverance robotic arm

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 11, 2021 - Every time we collect a rock sample on Mars, Perseverance performs an hours-long set of carefully choreographed operations with its robotic arm, the coring drill, and the Adaptive Caching Assembly.

Nov 11, 2021

Sols 3292-3293: Celebrating Zechstein with a Science Feast

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 10, 2021 - We did it! Yet another successful hole has been drilled in Mars! Welcome to the family, Zechstein! Tosol, Curiosity is planning for a TON of cool science including a ChemCam vertical raster

Nov 10, 2021