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Mars Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

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 3292-3293: Celebrating Zechstein with a Science Feast

We did it! Yet another successful hole has been drilled in Mars! Welcome to the family, "Zechstein!"

Nov 10, 2021

Sols 3289-3291: Go For Drilling on Zechstein!

This weekend plan is an exciting one - we are "GO" for drilling! I worked as a Rover Planner today, helping to sequence our 34th drill hole on Mars…

Nov 9, 2021

Flight #15 – Start of the Return Journey

With conjunction over and our first flight at 2,700 RPM behind us, Ingenuity is ready to begin the journey back to the Wright Brothers Field at the Octavia E.

Nov 8, 2021

NASA sending Mars helicopter back to where it all started

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has flown for the 15th time on Mars, starting a journey back to its starting point for future missions in a new direction.

Nov 8, 2021

Sols 3287-3288: Assessing a New Potential Drill Target

After our short bump on Tuesday, Curiosity has reached a new potential drill location.

Nov 8, 2021

Smart focus on Mars

From panoramas to close-ups, from 3D maps to a wheel selfie, the Earth-bound twin of ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover is testing the wide range of photo settings that will deliver the greatest science possible during the ExoMars mission on the Red Planet.

Nov 8, 2021

Researchers begin to understand correlation of schumann resonances and dust storms on Mars

The interaction of dust particles in Martian dust storms may cause electric fields that are powerful enough to have charges that induce standing electromagnetic waves known as S?humann resonances.

Nov 5, 2021

UNI Bremen involved in AMADEE-20 Mars Simulation

AMADEE-20: That is the name of the simulated Mars mission of the Austrian Space Forum, which was carried out in the Israeli Negev Desert.

Nov 4, 2021

New Curtin study pinpoints likely home of Martian meteorites

Curtin University researchers have pinpointed the likely origin of a group of meteorites ejected from Mars, using a machine learning algorithm that analyses high-resolution planetary images.

Nov 4, 2021

Sol 3285: Oh So Close

The drive over the weekend was successful, gaining us more than 6 m in elevation - not bad for a weekend hike!

Nov 4, 2021

NASA’s InSight spacecraft on Mars nears final days

NASA's InSight spacecraft is nearing the end of its life after four years on Mars.

Nov 1, 2021

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flight 14 Successful

The successful 14th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took place shortly after 1:18 a.m.

Oct 28, 2021

You can help train NASA’s rovers to better explore Mars

Artificial intelligence, or AI, has enormous potential to change the way NASA's spacecraft study the universe.

Oct 27, 2021

NASA Mars Rover and Helicopter models to go on national tour

Catch Mars mania as a traveling exhibit visits more than a dozen towns across the U.S.

Oct 26, 2021

China’s Mars orbiter resumes communications with Earth

China's Mars orbiter has resumed communications with Earth after the solar conjunction and will start remote sensing of Mars in early November, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said Friday.

Oct 25, 2021

Mars helicopter Ingenuity approaches 14th flight

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity is ready for a short Martian flight as early as Saturday to test summer weather conditions that have arrived at its location on the Red Planet after two weeks of no communication because of blockage by the sun.

Oct 22, 2021