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Mars in the rearview mirror - Psyche (www.flickr.com)
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Mars captured by NASA's Psyche spacecraft on May 16th, 2026 after its gravity assist.

We see the south permanent cap, Hellas Bassin (bright disk in the middle) and Terra Sabaea (bright plains on the left) with Schiaparelli crater.

RGB composite made with pictures through IR1 (723 nm), Green (550 nm) and Blue (495 nm) filters.

© NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Thomas Appéré

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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Love the shot. The sunlime shows southern summer at the time. Which mea a the carbon dioxide in the cap will be close to minimum, so this is the smallest (or nearly) extent that will be shown. The largest extent is actually hard to photograph through since it is in southern winter and would be in shadow.

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    • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    flickr doesn't seem to let me right-click on images to open them in a new tab, so i'll reupload it here:

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