{"id":50490,"date":"2025-10-08T01:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T01:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/interstellar-comet-passing-by-mars-seen-in-rare-images\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T01:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T01:22:04","slug":"interstellar-comet-passing-by-mars-seen-in-rare-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/interstellar-comet-passing-by-mars-seen-in-rare-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Interstellar comet passing by Mars seen in rare images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>A rare interstellar comet \u2014 only the third ever confirmed to enter our solar system \u2014 was photographed last week, closely approaching Mars, the European Space Agency said Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The images taken on Friday by two Mars orbiters show a bright, fuzzy white dot of the comet, also known as <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nasa-interstellar-comet-solar-system\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">3I\/ATLAS<\/a><\/span>, appearing to move against a backdrop of distant stars as it was\u00a0about 18,641,135 miles away from Mars. The comet poses no threat to Earth, NASA has previously said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a very challenging observation for the instrument,&#8221; Nick Thomas, principal investigator of the CaSSIS camera, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/ESA_s_ExoMars_and_Mars_Express_observe_comet_3I_ATLAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a>. &#8220;The comet is around 10,000 to 100,000 times fainter than our usual target.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/08\/86cd0895-e755-4ba4-8345-94b69c9a75ec\/thumbnail\/620x226\/0a05a702c6a5f43b10c38955ef740f28\/comet.png#\" alt=\"comet.png \" height=\"226\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/08\/86cd0895-e755-4ba4-8345-94b69c9a75ec\/thumbnail\/620x226\/0a05a702c6a5f43b10c38955ef740f28\/comet.png 1x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">ExoMars TGO image of comet 3I\/ATLAS<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                European Space Agency<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since its discovery in July, Comet 3I\/ATLAS has been photographed several times. In early August, NASA and the European Space Agency <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-hubble-telescope-image\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">shared images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope<\/a><\/span>, which captured the comet from about 277 million miles away.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/comet-3i-atlas-telescope-space-image\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">new image showed the growing tail<\/a><\/span> of 3I\/ATLAS from another star system streaking across our solar system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NASA has said the comet will make its closest approach to the sun in late October, passing between the orbits of Mars and Earth. It should remain visible through September before moving too close to the sun to observe, reappearing on the opposite side in early December.<\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency said Tuesday that scientists will keep analyzing data from both orbiters, combining multiple images from Mars Express in hopes of detecting the faint comet.<\/p>\n<p>Interstellar comets are very rare, astronomers said. Only two other examples have ever been confirmed: <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/oumuamua-non-alien-explanation-enigmatic-interstellar-visitor-2017\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">1I\/&#8217;Oumuamu<\/a><\/span> in 2017 and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/interstellar-second-ever-interstellar-object-discovered-in-our-solar-system-confirmed-and-named\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">2I\/Borisov<\/a><\/span> in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/kierra-frazier\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kierra  Frazier<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p 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