Psyche’s Mars Flyby Caught on Camera: NASA Shares First Images of the Gravity Assist Maneuver
Pasadena, California, May 21, 2026, 14:03 PDT NASA’s Psyche probe snapped fresh images of Mars after swinging past the planet for a gravity assist, a move that mission leads say charts a direct path to the metal asteroid target for 2029 arrival. In one image released, Mars appears as a slim crescent—caught by the spacecraft’s camera on May 15, right
