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See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

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Telescopes Reveal Surprising Chemistry of a Rare Interstellar Object Passing Through Our Solar System Called 3I/ATLAS, the object is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for billions of years, carrying pristine material from another star system

Nice short discussion of the evolving understanding of 3I/ATLAS as this interstellar comet continues its approach to the Sun and more observations come in from various telescopes, featuring a lot of the observing folks 🔭☄️🧪

While I am not a geologist (planetary scientist), I have always loved geology. I just checked and my index is 0.127. I live in Colorado so it is easy to take pictures of rocks. Here’s a fun one from Patagonia.

Congratulations!

Looking forward to the launch of the Protoflight FireSat mission tonight on Transporter-13. FireSat is designed to detect and monitor wildfires to give first responders accurate, timely, and comprehensive information about fire conditions.

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Lucy Spacecraft’s Second Slingshot of Earth NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will make its second of three Earth gravity assists on Dec. 12, 2024.Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Universal Production Musi...

Today NASA’s Lucy mission will fly past Earth setting up the spacecraft for its flyby of MBA DonaldJohanson and its encounters with the L4 Trojan asteroids. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14734