ESCAPADE
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Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers is a spacecraft mission to Mars consisting of two spacecraft known as Blue and Gold, which launched in November 2025. The mission is designed to d
Both ESCAPADE spacecraft unboxed at Astrotech
2001 mars odyssey wizja
MSL Artist Concept
Exploration of Mars
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The planet Mars has been explored remotely by spacecraft. Probes sent from Earth, beginning in the late 20th century, have yielded a large increase in knowledge about the Martian system, focused prima
ESCAPADE
…miles away, curving around the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange point on November 13, 2025. It will loiter there, studying space weather until late 2026, when the Mars transfer window opens. Then ESCAPADE will change course to dive within 600 km of Earth for a gravity assist and execute its escape burns to place it on a trajectory…
Mars landing sites (16 December 2020)
Martian sunset, Spirit rover, 2005
Mars 1M spacecraft
The first close-up images taken of Mars in 1965 from Mariner 4 show an area about 330 km across by 1200 km from limb to bottom of frame.