In early October 2025, ESA’s ExoMars Hint Fuel Orbiter snapped the closest-ever photographs of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS because it flew previous Mars. Within the pictures, a number of fuzzy brilliant comas of gasoline across the icy core of the comet may be seen; nonetheless, no tail may be seen in any respect as but. On October 3, the comet flew 30 million km (18.6 million miles) round Mars, with it travelling at roughly 130,000 mph.
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