Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

On the prowl at Jezero Crater, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is loaded with scientific equipment.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Several Mars orbiting spacecraft were on tap to image the flyby of that odd ball 3I/Atlas as it flew by the Red Planet.

So far, what that set of spacecraft snagged in terms of data have yet to see daylight.

Meanwhile, Simeon Schmauß, a sharp-eyed astrophotographer, reports that NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover “raised her head up at the night sky to capture interstellar comet 3I/Atlas during its close encounter of Mars.”

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

Faint smudge

The enigmatic object is visible as a faint smudge next to a field of stars.

The image is the result of stacking 20 individual exposures and further “de-noised” with Adobe Lightroom, Schmauß explains.

The result can be seen at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/semeion/54831921015/#:~:text=3I/Atlas%20from,ASU/Simeon%20Schmau%C3%9F