Citizen scientist Simeon Schmauss stacked publicaly available Mastcam images from NASA's Perseverance rover that shows what is probably our first image of Atlas from Mars.
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Quote:We are fortunate to benefit from the passage of an unusually massive and bright interstellar object (at least a thousand times more massive than the previous two: 1I/`Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov) in the inner solar system through an orbit that is aligned with the ecliptic plane of the planets around the Sun (with a random likelihood of order 0.2%) and that is timed for a close passage near Mars, Venus and Jupiter (with a likelihood of 0.005%). Whether these extremely rare coincidences are a matter of random chance or extraterrestrial intelligent planning remains to be seen by the Mars orbiters. Based on the data their images and spectrographs provide, humanity will know whether it should be grateful to mother nature or to the intelligence of a cosmic sibling.
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