NASA shares beautiful timelapse of the Psyche spacecraft’s view over Mars

Composite image: The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approaches – May 2026. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU. Article by Cheyenne MacDonald. Engadget – July 19, 2026.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is well on its way to its target in the asteroid belt after receiving a gravity assist from Mars in May, and the space agency just shared some incredible images from that brief encounter. Psyche captured thousands of images with its multispectral imager as it approached and flew past Mars. A timelapse shared by NASA on Friday stitches these images together to create a captivating video of the entire encounter, showing the crescent Mars it captured upon arrival, detailed views of the surface and the icy south pole behind it as it departed. […]

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Video: Psyche Captures Stunning Timelapse Video of Its Mars Encounter – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory