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Asteroid mission captures rarely seen perspective of Mars during close flyby www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/s... #Psyche #Mars 🧪🔭

Neat view of Mars during the Psyche encounter. Using the overexposed images we can zoom in nicely to see the martian atmosphere. Similar to how Cassini would position itself behind Titan for those beautiful coffee-stain atmosphere shots. flic.kr/p/2senpue

Mars as seen from the Psyche spacecraft on its way to the metallic asteroid of the same name.

From NASA The initial reports are in: #MissionToPsyche aced its Mars flyby. ☑️ With the Red Planet in the rearview mirror, the spacecraft will resume using its solar-electric propulsion system to make a beeline to the main asteroid belt and rendezvous with the asteroid Psyche go.nasa.gov/4dn30CI

Psyche images Mars’ Huygens Crater Captured by the multispectral imager instrument, this is an enhanced-color view of the large double-ring crater Huygens and the surrounding heavily cratered southern highlands near 15° south latitude. science.nasa.gov/photojournal... #Psyche #Mars 🧪🔭

Mars' southern hemisphere from the departing Psyche spacecraft on May 16th. flic.kr/p/2sdXi1n

New colour view of Mars taken by the Psyche probe on May 16th after its flyby. Made by combining R, G & B filtered b&w images. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/S Atkinson

Stack of images taken of Mars taken by the Psyche probe on May 16th after its flyby, processed to bring out detail on the planet's disc. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/S Atkinson

NASA is testing the limits of future Mars aircraft as it works to develop a next-generation fleet of helicopters that will fly through the thin atmosphere of the Red Planet. 🧪 #PlanetSci

This is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*

Ya empiezan a llegar imágenes del terreno en varios filtros, aquí un primer triplete #Psyche mission #Mars May 15, 2026 Multispectral Imager Camera A Infrared Green Blue filters solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche_image... NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/j. Roger

Two worlds: Earth, taken by the Artemis II crew and Mars, taken by the Psyche probe... I wonder when human eyes will see Mars as a crescent like this... Earth image: NASA Mars image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Additional processing: S Atkinson

Here is a mosaic from the close approach images. flic.kr/p/2sdCjqp For location reference I marked the area in MUTED (a nice Mars map website) muted.uni-muenster.de?x=76.063&y=6...

Psyche captured this sequence a few hours later during closest approach when Psyche was about 5000 km above Mars. The sequence starts over Isisdis Planitia, moves across Syrtis Major (a bit south of where Perseverance is) and ends over Huygens crater.

New image of Mars from NASA Psyche Full size: flic.kr/p/2sdCLCM 🧪🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Andrea Luck CC BY May 15, 2026 10:05:53 AM (UTC) IR+GR+BL

It's fun when new imagery comes down and we all jump on it 😃

#Isidis Planitia! Thanks to @andrealuck.bsky.social to locate them and @danielmachacek.bsky.social for his map

Mientras los dientes se me ponen más largos cada minuto que pasa aquí un pequeño gif con el campo observado con estas 3 últimas imágenes, solo un filtro. #Psyche mission #Mars May 15, 2026 Multispectral Imager Camera B solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche_image... NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/j. Roger

Première mosaïque de 4 images acquises par la sonde Psyche lors de son survol de Mars réalisé avant-hier. Qui arrivera à localiser cette scène ? @pomarede.bsky.social @andrealuck.bsky.social @stim3on.bsky.social ©NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Thomas Appéré 🧪🔭 #Psyche

#Psyche mission #Mars flyby May 14, 2026 Multispectral Imager Camera B 4x Infrared 1 filter (723 nm) Green filter (550 nm) Blue filter (495) solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche_image... NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/j. Roger

#Psyche mission #Mars flyby May 14, 2026 Multispectral Imager Camera B 4x Infrared 1 filter (723 nm) Green filter (550 nm) Blue filter (495) solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche_image... NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/j. Roger

The #Psyche spacecraft acquired these 12 #Mars images using its Multispectral Imager Camera B and the Clear filter (515) solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche_image... NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/j. Roger

Well, I guess the Psyche spacecraft has passed her [pauses to consult reference book] periareon by now. Fair sailing, Psyche! We have three years to figure out "What are the words for apoapsis & periapsis when a spacecraft orbits the asteroid also called Psyche?" See you on 5 August 2029! 🔭

Moments ago, NASA's Psyche spacecraft made its closest approach of Mars! The images should be *spectacular* (but we have to wait until next week to see them) 🧪 🔭

Wow... Just posted by NASA Artemis: high-resolution video capturing the separation of the Orion Integrity spacecraft’s crew module - carrying the astronauts - from the European service module. #Artemis

Some recent art I made! Inspired by 19th century astronomy charts (www.rmg.co.uk/collections/...) and Jean-Pierre Luminet's 1978 black hole simulation. 🐡🔭🧪

This is the same sequence as above but at a lower exposure. The backlit atmosphere is easier to see in this one. #Psyche

A full view of Mars' night side captured by NASA's Psyche spacecraft taken just a few hours ago. 🔭🧪 #Psyche The North polar cap is approximately at the 2 o'clock position. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

This Friday, our Psyche spacecraft is doing a Mars gravity assist flyby. It will crank the plane of the spacecraft orbit over by a few degrees from Earth's orbit to the orbit plane of asteroid Psyche. I spent the last few months working on pointing sequences for bonus instrument calibrations. 1/3

I have no idea how far away this galaxy is, nor how big it is. (That information is obtainable, I just don't have it.) But more than anything, I wonder if there are people there, looking back.

also sort of wild that they have one of his fingers on display, just like you'd have a relic of a saint

These are not just Galilean-style telescopes, they are the originals: hand-built by Galileo himself in 1609 and 1610, the only surviving examples. The older of the two is possibly the telescope he used to discover the moons of Jupiter - which revolutionised astronomy. 🔭🧪⚛️ #astrohistory #planetsci

You can watch the planet grow larger in the windshield as the spacecraft approaches over the next few days with a newly active raw image feed: solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche-raw-i... And track its position (or even fast-forward to the encounter on May 15) here: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...

This unassuming little crescent is actually something cool: It's a crescent Mars, seen by NASA's Psyche spacecraft as it approaches the Red Planet for a gravity assist flyby next week. Details: go.nasa.gov/4tsCLPQ

It exists! I interviewed backup dancers, producers, the costume designer, the song’s producers who granted the rights, and so many more who were involved: web.archive.org/web/20240227...

This is incredible. The new NASA image release from #Artemis includes a sequence of 'Hello World' still photographs. I've been processing / animating them and here's what the original didn't show us: Satellites, including their solar arrays, lightning storms and dancing aurora!

News directly from NASA-JPL: 📍MSL Curiosity Rover, Gale crater, Mars (*Excited to hear more about this over the next 3 days!) 🧪🔭 #PlanetarySci

Every time I'm on MSL planning I still almost can't believe that we're able to say "I would like to take a picture of that rock (or whatever)" and within a handful of days get a photo of that rock (or whatever) FROM THE SURFACE OF MARS.

Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇

Our mission, Psyche, has a Mars flyby coming up in about a month. It's been pretty darned cool this week listening to the Artemis II ops comms while working on the encounter sequence. Things got even cooler when I saw some Moon flyby pics had Mars in them and realized our own bird was in frame too.

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

Alrighty so NASA (and me and a lot of other people) had a little goof. But I think it’s a great opportunity to remind people that sometimes mistakes can actually be pretty cool and lead to a lot of new perspectives and understanding! 🧪🔭

Entry interface will be a little southeast of Hawai`i. Splashdown off the coast of Southern California.

impact flash moonjoy pog, live science director Kelsey Young's reaction

New rule: No chainmail in the washing machine.

Inside the Science Mission Operations Room at the Johnson Space Center this morning. #ArtemisII 🧪🔭

Nice Artemis II dashboard: artemis.cdnspace.ca

astronauts are live rn lol www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...