NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) took another look at Atlas on the 15th , 18th and 19th of January as the Interstellar object heads out to Jupiter and onwards ... or not , sadly the observations by TESS on the 16th and 17th didn't happen as TESS entered a safe mode following an issue with its solar panels , Allegedly.
MRO "jitter" , TESS "safe mode" , CIA can neither confirm or deny knowledge .... All the hallmarks of a normal Comet.
Quote:NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during a special observation run from Jan. 15 to 22. Scientists will use the data to study the comet’s activity and rotation.
Using TESS data from Jan. 15 and Jan. 18 to 19, Daniel Muthukrishna, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, compiled a series of images into a short video that shows 3I/ATLAS as a bright moving dot with a tail.
https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatlas/2...-3i-atlas/
MRO "jitter" , TESS "safe mode" , CIA can neither confirm or deny knowledge .... All the hallmarks of a normal Comet.