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U of A's Mars camera gets close look at comet from interstellar space
TUCSON, Arizona, Nov. 19 -- The University of Arizona posted the following news release:
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U of A's Mars camera gets close look at comet from interstellar space
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At the beginning of October, three of NASA's Mars spacecraft had front row seats to view 3I/ATLAS - only the third interstellar object observed in our solar system. Among them, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, was in a prime position to snap images of the comet as it sailed by at a distance of 19 million miles (30 mi
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