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Twin spacecraft open a new paradigm for Mars

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NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission will provide a revolutionary view of Martian space weather, and a new paradigm for low-cost deep space missions.

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Fig. 1: The ESCAPADE twin spacecraft just prior to launch vehicle integration.

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    Robert Lillis, Shaosui Xu & Takuya Hara

  2. Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

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Lillis, R., Curry, S., Xu, S. et al. Twin spacecraft open a new paradigm for Mars. Nat Astron 10, 325 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-026-02788-8

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