On 1 June 1966, Surveyor 1 landed on the Moon and sent home 10,338 pictures in under two weeks

On 2 June 1966, Surveyor 1 became the first American spacecraft to survive a lunar landing, sending back 10,338 photographs from the Ocean of Storms in under two weeks and proving the Moon's surface would hold Apollo's weight.

By Mars Daily Editorial Team · Aug 31, 2026

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What happened when wildlife biologists released 41 predators into a national park starting in 1995 and researchers began arguing, decades later, whether the rivers themselves had changed course as a result?

In 1995, biologists released 41 wolves into Yellowstone after a 70-year absence. Three decades later, the story of what they changed — and what they didn't — is being rewritten.

By Mars Daily Editorial Team · Aug 25, 2026

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We tend to picture glass as a slow-moving liquid because old cathedral windows are thicker at the bottom, but physicists have shown the sag is a manufacturing artefact of medieval glassmakers, and room-temperature glass would need timescales far longer than the age of the universe to flow

Old cathedral windows really are thicker at the bottom, but the sag comes from medieval glassmaking, not centuries of slow flow. Actual room-temperature glass would need more than the age of the universe to move at all.

By Mars Daily Editorial Team · Aug 21, 2026

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In 1610, Galileo turned a homemade telescope toward Jupiter and sketched four points of light that seemed to shift positions each night, and within a week he realised he was watching moons orbit another world — the first direct evidence that not everything circled Earth

On January 7, 1610, Galileo pointed a homemade 20x telescope at Jupiter and sketched four dots that rearranged themselves nightly — the first proof that worlds could orbit something other than Earth, and the observation that cracked open the Aristotelian cosmos.

By Mars Daily Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026

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People who keep the thermostat lower than everyone else in the house, wear the same coat for a decade, and refill jars they could easily replace aren't cheap, they carry a relationship to scarcity that never fully left the body

The body remembers scarcity long after the mind has registered abundance, and no amount of money can fully convince it otherwise.

By Mars Daily Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026

Farm News

How did a desert nation with almost no freshwater and 60 percent arid land raise agricultural output more than tenfold since 1948 while cutting water used per crop by roughly half, using a technique invented on a leaky pipe?

How Israel turned a leaking pipe in the Negev into the drip-irrigation system that raised agricultural output more than sixteenfold since 1948 while cutting water use per crop by roughly half.

By Mars Daily Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026

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Olympus Mons on Mars rises about 22 kilometres above the surrounding plains but stretches roughly 600 kilometres wide, so a climber standing on its slope would see only a gentle rise in every direction and never realise they were on the tallest volcano in the solar system

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In 1846, French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier predicted the position of an unseen eighth planet from irregularities in Uranus's orbit, and when he wrote to the Berlin Observatory, they found Neptune within a single degree of his coordinates on the very first night they looked

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How does a coastal tree that grows with its roots in salt water store three to five times more carbon per hectare than the tropical rainforest inland from it?

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A Martian day lasts 24 hours and 39 minutes, so close to Earth's that rover teams at JPL initially tried to live on Mars time, sliding 40 minutes later each day until crews were showing up to work in the middle of the Los Angeles night

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On 1 June 1966, Surveyor 1 landed on the Moon and sent home 10,338 pictures in under two weeks

What happened when wildlife biologists released 41 predators into a national park starting in 1995 and researchers began arguing, decades later, whether the rivers themselves had changed course as a result?

We tend to picture glass as a slow-moving liquid because old cathedral windows are thicker at the bottom, but physicists have shown the sag is a manufacturing artefact of medieval glassmakers, and room-temperature glass would need timescales far longer than the age of the universe to flow

In 1610, Galileo turned a homemade telescope toward Jupiter and sketched four points of light that seemed to shift positions each night, and within a week he realised he was watching moons orbit another world — the first direct evidence that not everything circled Earth

People who keep the thermostat lower than everyone else in the house, wear the same coat for a decade, and refill jars they could easily replace aren't cheap, they carry a relationship to scarcity that never fully left the body

How did a desert nation with almost no freshwater and 60 percent arid land raise agricultural output more than tenfold since 1948 while cutting water used per crop by roughly half, using a technique invented on a leaky pipe?

Olympus Mons on Mars rises about 22 kilometres above the surrounding plains but stretches roughly 600 kilometres wide, so a climber standing on its slope would see only a gentle rise in every direction and never realise they were on the tallest volcano in the solar system

In 1846, French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier predicted the position of an unseen eighth planet from irregularities in Uranus's orbit, and when he wrote to the Berlin Observatory, they found Neptune within a single degree of his coordinates on the very first night they looked

How does a coastal tree that grows with its roots in salt water store three to five times more carbon per hectare than the tropical rainforest inland from it?

A Martian day lasts 24 hours and 39 minutes, so close to Earth's that rover teams at JPL initially tried to live on Mars time, sliding 40 minutes later each day until crews were showing up to work in the middle of the Los Angeles night

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