Animation Of NASA’s ESCAPADE Launched To Mars Atop Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars by a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket. ESCAPADE will study how the “solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape,” according to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center