
An ESCAPADE to Mars, on the cheap
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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How Escapade Complements Maven?
Maven was designed to study how that heliospheric environment, solar wind, solar extreme ultra violet light, interplanetary magnetic field, solar storms, solar energetic particles. How all those affect the mars upper atmosphere and interact with it. Mars is really a unique planet. It has what we would call a hybrid magneto sphere. The plasmic pressure within the osphere itself n can sound off the solar wind, but the solar wind gets much, much closer. And so the reason is mars has these very strong, coherent crustal magnetic fields, but not uniformly across the planet.
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