You can see Mars as rarely viewed in new NASA spacecraft photos - Yahoo

Hear this story The spacecraft used Mars' gravity to gain a speed boost for its journey to a metal-rich asteroid. Psyche's ultimate destination is a metallic asteroid of the same name, which it is expected to reach by 2029. The mission aims to study the asteroid to learn more about Earth's own core. A NASA spacecraft on its way to study a strange metal asteroid recently took a detour above Mars. And the striking images it captured during the interlude provide a rare and captivating look at Earth's planetary neighbor .