NASA’s Psyche Snaps Mars as It Passes By — Here’s Why That Crater Image Counts
PASADENA, California, May 28, 2026, 13:02 PDT NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, on its way to study a metal-heavy asteroid, snapped an enhanced-color image of Mars’ Huygens Crater—a sprawling 470-kilometer double-ring basin—during a close flyby that set it up for a 2029 rendezvous with its namesake target. The shot came just after closest approach, with Psyche’s multispectral imager capturing variations in surface
