Medicine & TechnologyNASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter flew over near the remnants of comet ATLAS to find what happened to its tail after its disintegration in April 2020.
Solar Orbiter has captured a brilliant view of Earth, Mars, and Venus in just a single frame. European Space Agency shared the stunning video on the website.
The joint American-European Solar Orbiter spacecraft "had an appointment with Venus" yesterday morning, the first "in a series of planetary flybys" to hone the orbit of a probe on its journey to the sun.