NASA's ESCAPADE Mars Mission

NASA's ESCAPADE Mars Mission

Over billions of years, a relentless flow of particles from the Sun—the solar wind—has slowly stripped away the Martian atmosphere, causing surface water to evaporate. How did this happen? 

NASA's new ESCAPADE mission aims to find out. Launching no earlier than Oct. 13, 2024, the Escape and Plasma Acceleration Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission will be studying Mars' real-time response to the solar wind, helping us better understand Mars' climate history. 

The mission is set to launch no earlier than late 2024 on Blue Origin's inaugural New Glenn rocket flight. It will take ESCAPADE about 11 months to arrive at Mars after leaving Earth’s orbit.

The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin.

Learn more about NASA's ESCAPADE Mission:

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/escapade

https://escapade.ssl.berkeley.edu

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=ESCAPADE

Video Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Animation Credit: James Rattray/Rocket Lab USA; Blue Origin

Producer: Beth Anthony (eMITS)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Aug. 23, 2024

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