NASA Spacecraft Captures Rare Crescent Mars
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft fires its Hall thrusters one last time before Friday’s Mars flyby at 12,000 mph
Somewhere between Earth and Mars, a spacecraft the size of a tennis court is gliding in silence. NASA’s Psyche probe shut down its electric thrusters after nearly 11 months of continuous firing and is now coasting on a precise, gravity-driven arc toward ...
NASA's Psyche spacecraft will get a boost from Mars on Friday, May 15, passing just 2,800 miles (4,500 kilometers) from the planet's surface at some 12,333 mph (19,848 kph). The spacecraft will harness the planet's gravitational pull to speed up and adjust its trajectory toward the metal-rich asteroid Psyche,