The first images from Mars of the Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS have been released as NASA has gone radio silent due to the government shutdown.
Glowing in the Martian sky, 3I/ATLAS was captured by a total of seven orbiters from several agencies as it made its closest pass on its path through the inner solar system — coming within 12 million miles of the Red Planet.
The European Space Agency released the first images of the mysterious interstellar object recorded by their ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on Tuesday.
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The craft captured images with its Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System — with a tiny, fuzzy white dot which shows the center of the glowing coma of 3I/ATLAS.
The first released images from the European Space
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