NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars — twin UC Berkeley satellites dubbed Blue and Gold — will launch in early November

NASA's first multiple-satellite mission to another planet will map Mars' magnetic field and atmosphere in 3D, laying the groundwork for human exploration.

NASA is sending probes to Mars to find out why it lost its atmosphere – and what that could mean for Earth

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its surface. So, what happened to the Red Planet, and could it happen to Earth?

UC Berkeley scientists to launch NASA mission to Mars

Leading NASA’s ESCAPADE mission, the team based at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory’s mission operations center will manage the twin satellites as they take off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this weekend and travel to Mars by 2027.
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China’s Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter captures rare image of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS while researchers wait for NASA's HiRISE photos

New images of the interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, shows its nucleus and a surrounding coma with a diameter reaching several thousand kilometers
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