Wahana antariksa Psyche milik NASA terbang melewati Mars pada 15 Mei, merekam gambar detail permukaan planet tersebut. Pertemuan jarak dekat ini memberikan dorongan gravitasi untuk mempercepat misi menuju target utamanya.
Wahana tersebut melintas dalam jarak 2.864 mil dari Mars dan merekam pemandangan kawah Huygens yang memiliki cincin ganda serta dataran tinggi bagian selatan yang dipenuhi kawah. Gambar diambil dengan instrumen pencitra multispektral yang ada di dalam wahana tersebut.
Nasa has released images captured by the Psyche spacecraft during its recent flyby of Mars. The photos were taken as the probe used the planet's gravity to adjust its trajectory toward the asteroid 16 Psyche.
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft is scheduled to pass within 2,800 miles of Mars on May 15 to gain a gravitational boost toward its target asteroid. The maneuver will increase the probe's speed while allowing tests of its scientific instruments.
NASA has set August 30, 2026, as the launch date for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, moving the schedule up by eight months from earlier plans.
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to discover around 100000 previously unknown exoplanets. This would mark a major increase from the nearly 6300 worlds identified so far. The mission will survey distant regions of the Milky Way using transit and microlensing methods.