futura-sciences.com·3 min read·medium
Mars like you've never seen it: breathtaking flyover will leave you speechless
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Futura Team and Pia Gray
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of Mars, using the planet's gravity for a speed boost while testing its onboard scientific instruments. The mission aims to study the asteroid 16 Psyche to determine if it is the exposed core of a failed protoplanet.
The Mars flyby served two distinct purposes. Mars’s gravity gave the spacecraft a helpful speed boost. At the same time, the pass let engineers test Psyche’s instruments on a real planetary target.
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