After Psyche’s Mars Flyby, NASA Watches the Data Return
Pasadena, California, June 6, 2026, 07:02 PDT NASA’s Psyche probe has swung past Mars, completing its gravity-assist slingshot on May 15—brushing just 2,864 miles above the Martian surface and sending back new shots of the Red Planet. That maneuver didn’t just juice its speed for the long trip to a metal-rich asteroid; it doubled as a shakeout for the science
