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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.

Small stature limits Mars’ ability to hold water, study finds

Washington DC (UPI) Sep 20, 2021 - For a planet to be habitable, it must be able to hold significant amounts of liquid water.

Sep 20, 2021

Take a 3D Spin on Mars and track NASA’s Perseverance Rover

Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 20, 2021 - Two interactive web experiences let you explore the Martian surface, as seen by cameras aboard the rover and orbiters flying overhead. It's the next best thing to being on Mars: Two online int

Sep 20, 2021

NASA offers new website to look at Mars rover images

Washington DC (UPI) Sep 20, 2021 - Fans of NASA's Mars rover Perseverance can now see the robotic explorer and its activity in a 3D depiction of the Red Planet terrain via a new website.

Sep 20, 2021

Justin Simon Shepherds Perseverance through first phase of Martian rock sampling

Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 20, 2021 - The Johnson Space Center scientist was tasked with helping guide the way for mission's first cored Mars rock sample. The evening of Aug. 1 felt a lot like a birthday to NASA planetary scientis

Sep 20, 2021

NASA confirms thousands of massive, ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 20, 2021 - Scientists found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of super eruptions, the biggest volcanic eruptions known, over a 500-million-year period. S

Sep 20, 2021

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Captures a Mars Rock Feature in 3D

Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 17, 2021 - NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter provided a 3D view of a rock-covered mound during its 13th flight on Sept. 4. The plan for this reconnaissance mission into the South Seitah region of Mars' Jezero

Sep 17, 2021

First deep drilling success for ExoMars

Paris (ESA) Sep 17, 2021 - ESA's Rosalind Franklin twin rover on Earth has drilled down and extracted samples 1.7 metres into the ground - much deeper than any other martian rover has ever attempted. The successful coll

Sep 17, 2021

Flying On Mars is getting harder and harder

Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 17, 2021 - In the months since we flew for the first time, we have learned a great deal about operating a helicopter on Mars. We have explored Ingenuity's strengths and limitations in detail, leveraging the fo

Sep 17, 2021

Scientists believe Mars rock samples contain organic matter

Washington DC (UPI) Sep 17, 2021 - Scientists believe some of the recently-collected rock samples taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover likely contain organic matter.

Sep 17, 2021

MDA awarded contract for Japan’s Martian Moons Exploration Mission

Toronto, Canada (SPX) Sep 15, 2021 - MDA Ltd. been awarded the full contract from Mitsubishi Electric in Japan to provide a Laser Rangefinder (LRF) altimeter for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) MMX (Martian Moons eXplorat

Sep 15, 2021

NASA Mars Rover’s rock samples to be studied for signs of life

Washington DC (UPI) Sep 15, 2021 - NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has collected four rock samples since July from the planet's surface, in an area the agency considers a top prospect for finding signs of ancient microbial life, the agency said Thursday.

Sep 15, 2021

NASA’s Perseverance rover collects puzzle pieces of Mars’ history

Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2021 - NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the region. After collecting its first sample, named Montd

Sep 13, 2021

Mars rover’s first rock samples reveal lengthy water exposure

Washington DC (UPI) Sep 10, 2021 - The first two rock samples examined by NASA's Mars rover Perseverance give scientists a firm belief that water inundated Jezero Crater for a sustained period of time, the agency announced Friday.

Sep 10, 2021

NASA Mars mission begins a new chapter of science with a new leader

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 - Dr. Shannon Curry, planetary scientist and the deputy assistant director of planetary science at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley, has assumed leadership

Sep 10, 2021

Buttes on Mars may serve as radiation shelters

Hefei, China (SPX) Sep 08, 2021 - Mars has a bad reputation for its high exposure to radiation and it has neither a magnetic field nor a thick atmosphere to shelter its surface from high energy particles from outer space. In

Sep 8, 2021

China develops prototype Mars helicopter

Beijing (Sputnik) Sep 08, 2021 - The newly developed and recently unveiled prototype miniature helicopter drone, a possible means to support China's Mars missions, is designed to become a navigator for the Mars rover. It will great

Sep 8, 2021