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The twin probes just launched toward Mars have an Easter egg on board

The first multi-spacecraft science mission to launch to Mars is now on its way, and catching a ride on the twin probes are the first kiwis to fly to the red planet.

NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission lifted off on a 22-month trip to Mars on Thursday aboard a New Glenn rocket. Once there, the identical satellites will enter Martian orbit to study in real time how space weather affects the planet’s hybrid magnetosphere and how the interaction drove Mars to lose its once-dense atmosphere.

Led by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeleyβ€”the two spacecraft are named β€œBlue” and β€œGold” after the school’s colorsβ€”the ESCAPADE probes are the first Mars-bound vehicles to be designed, built, and tested by Rocket Lab, the end-to-end space company headquartered in California but founded in New Zealand.

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Black bean curry plate

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Paneer fry and dal plate

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