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Latest News: NASA’s Psyche Mission Aces Mars Flyby, Targets Metal-Rich Asteroid

 
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May 19, 2026

Solar System
A slender, glowing crescent of Mars curves across the bottom of a completely black void, revealing its dusty reddish-orange surface and a thin, hazy blue atmospheric glow along the illuminated edge.
The successful flyby of Mars on May 15 provided the mission team with a valuable practice run ahead of the spacecraft’s arrival at the mysterious asteroid Psyche in 2029. Full Story and Images
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