NASA’s ESCAPADE Ready to Study Space Weather from Earth to Mars

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NASA’s ESCAPADE Ready to Study Space Weather from Earth to Mars

An artist’s concept shows the two ESCAPADE spacecraft at Mars. The ESCAPADE mission is the first to coordinate two spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth.

Credits:
James Rattray/Rocket Lab USA

Mars is not what it used to be. Once warm, watery, and blanketed by a thick atmosphere, today the Red Planet is cold, dry, and draped by a thin atmospheric veil.