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For Further InformationNASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will study how the solar wind strips Mars' atmosphere, after an Earth slingshot in fall 2026.
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Mars The curved path an object takes as it travels around a planet, moon or star, like a satellite circling Earth. Glossary.
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NASA's ESCAPADE launched on November 13, 2025: two identical spacecraft that will orbit Mars and study how the A steady stream of charged particles flowing out from the Sun in every direction. Glossary interacts with its hybrid magnetosphere and drives atmospheric escape. After a loiter orbit near Earth's A spot in space where the pull of the Sun and Earth balance, so a spacecraft can stay in place with little fuel. L1 sits between Earth and the Sun. Glossary 2, they use Earth's gravity in fall 2026 to slingshot toward Mars. The goal is to understand how Mars lost its once-thick atmosphere, one that may have supported liquid water.
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Mars shows what happens to a planet that loses its protection; Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere are shields worth understanding.
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