NASA's Psyche Mission Captured an Eerie Timelapse of Its Flyby of Mars - ScienceAlert
NASA's Psyche spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of Mars, capturing a timelapse of the planet and using its gravity for a speed boost. The mission is currently en route to explore a unique metal-rich asteroid.
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The Psyche mission represents a significant advancement in deep-space exploration and our understanding of planetary formation.
Add ScienceAlert on Google A psychedelic composite image of Mars, showing what the Psyche mission saw as it approached the red planet from 2 May to 15 May 2026. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) The Universe is so unimaginably immense, we'll never be able to see all of it – yet some of its most intriguingly mysterious objects are located right in our own solar backyard.
A NASA spacecraft is currently speeding toward such an object, promising to reveal a distant asteroid unlike any we've ever explored.
"For the first time ever, we are exploring a world made not of rock or ice, but of metal," astronomers announce .
On its journey to this mysterious object, the NASA probe is capturing some incredible views of the Solar System, including this breathtaking timelapse of the Red Planet.
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