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

https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-escapade-ready-to-study-space-weather-from-earth-to-mars/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nn202608 Mars has changed dramatically over time. Once warm, watery, and blanketed by a thick atmosphere, the Red Planet is now cold and draped by a thin atmospheric veil. The driving force behind this transformation is a relentless stream of particles from the Sun, known as solar wind, which the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission, or ESCAPADE, has begun investigating.