Mars used to be warm, watery, and blanketed by a thick atmosphere. What happened? 🤔 NASA’s ESCAPADE mission just turned on its science instruments to find out. These twin spacecraft are helping prep for future human missions to the Red Planet. 🔴☀️ More: go.nasa.gov/4s5bKSm

Mars was once a world of rushing rivers and a thick, protective atmosphere, but today it is a frozen desert a transformation driven by the loss of its global magnetic field and the subsequent stripping of its air by solar winds over billions of years. The twin ESCAPADE spacecraft (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) are now en route to Mars with science instruments activated, utilizing a dual-point observation strategy to measure the real-time response of the Martian magnetosphere to solar wind variability once in orbit. Because Mars lacks a global intrinsic dipole like Earth, its upper atmosphere is directly exposed to the Sun's high-energy ion flux, leading to ion escape via photochemical and sputtering processes. Follow for daily mind-blowing visuals and deep-space physics. Do you think we have a responsibility to try and bring its atmosphere back?

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@NASASolarSystem Maybe a solar event fried Mars?

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@NASASolarSystem So basically, Mars had a glow-up and then majorly faded. ESCAPADE better spill the tea on what went wrong-future humans need to know what *not* to do.

Understanding how Mars lost its atmosphere is directly relevant to understanding Earth's long-term climate stability. ESCAPADE's dual-spacecraft approach to mapping solar wind interaction is clever. This kind of preparatory science makes every future crewed mission less of a guess.

@NASASolarSystem Preparing the ground for real estate investments!

@NASASolarSystem Future missions, God willing. Please don't forget that nothing is planned here without putting God first. Or don't you celebrate Christmas? Do you celebrate Alien Day?

@NASASolarSystem Mars lost its magnetic shield — the solar wind did the rest. Still waiting for humans to return. 🐾🚀

@NASASolarSystem Let the investigation begin!

@NASASolarSystem Are you SURE??? I mean ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY sure??? You guys change your minds about every decade or so.

@NASASolarSystem @SunWeatherMan Huh. Magnets. Go figure.

@NASASolarSystem we're not just looking for answers, we're looking for neighbors

@NASASolarSystem seeds are the regulators/deterrance of life expansion/extintion of eletromagnetic atmospheric shields ?

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@NASASolarSystem This is just stupid. Anybody who believes this crap is retarded.

@NASASolarSystem Study the climate on Mars... I'll throw it out there... what if instead we studied the Earth's climate by linking it to solar activity? (which is well-known and extremely well-known but we prefer to say that the cause is anthropogenic...$$$$$)

@NASASolarSystem It's not that complicated. 1) Low gravity 2) Weak magnetic field after the small core cooled <- Mostly this!

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@NASASolarSystem This is very simple yet very very smart! Who is the person behind the concept idea?! @NASA

@NASASolarSystem @NASAMars peut-être que le coeur de Mars a arrêté de tourner comme dans le film "Au coeur de la Terre".

@NASASolarSystem time

@NASASolarSystem Mars got rekt by solar volatility, no layer 1 security.

@NASASolarSystem If it was green, it would have had life Microbial but still life