Mars is not what it used to be. Once warm, watery, and blanketed by a thick atmosphere, today the Red Planet is cold, dry, and draped by a thin atmospheric veil. The main culprit is a relentless stream of particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind. Over billions of years, the solar wind has stripped away […]
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EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics, Heliophysics Division, Mars, Space Weather, The Sun
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February 26, 2026
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