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On a largely black background, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS appears as a white smudge with a semicircular shape at its core. A transparent white cloud extends slightly from the comet toward the bottom left of the image and, to a lesser extent, toward the right side of the image. A scale bar indicates a distance of 932 miles above the comet, and an arrow pointing from the comet to the bottom left of the image is labeled “comet trajectory."

HiRISE Images 3I/ATLAS_text

An annotated version of the image of 3I/ATLAS captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the trajectory of the interstellar comet along with a scale bar. The image was captured by the spacecraft’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on Oct. 2, 2025..

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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