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NASA’s latest ESCAPADE is sending twin low-cost orbiters to examine Mars’ atmosphere

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE ...

Low-cost mission launches to study space weather at Mars

A pair of small satellites began their 2 year journey to Mars to study the red planet's magnetic field and how solar wind has stripped the atmosphere there over millions of years ...

Four volunteers are a month into their ‘life on Mars’

NASA’s Johnson Space Center reminded everyone on Monday that its four volunteers have been inside its Mars simulation habitat ...

NASA is sending probes to Mars to find out why it lost its atmosphere – and what that could mean for Earth

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...
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Blue Origin Sends NASA Mission To Mars, Followed By First-Ever Successful Landing Of New Glenn's Booster

It’s off! The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission is on its way to Mars. It was sent ...
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Next stop, not Mars: Why NASA's twin ESCAPADE probes are taking the long way to the Red Planet after Blue Origin launch

For the first time in more than five years, humanity has launched a mission to Mars — but it won't be arriving at the Red ...