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NASA’s Psyche probe passes just 2,800 miles above Mars Friday — using the planet’s gravity to slingshot toward a metal asteroid worth $700 quintillion

At roughly 12,333 mph, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will skim just 2,800 miles above the surface of Mars on Friday, May 16, 2026, threading a gravitational needle that will bend its course toward one of the strangest objects in the solar system: a 140-mile ...
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Asteroid mission captures rarely seen perspective of Mars during close flyby

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Time lapse images taken from May 2 to 15 show the changing view of crescent Mars from the Psyche spacecraft. - NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU A NASA spacecraft bound for an unusual metallic ...
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This Asteroid Created a Cosmic Hiking Trail to Mars (and Scientists Want to Follow It)

In space, you’d think there would be no shortcuts. It’s space. It’s defined by its vastness, its emptiness, and, you’d imagine, its directness. You just have to go from here to there in a straight line, maybe maneuver around a planet or moon or ...