This composite of images taken by NASA’s Psyche mission shows the Mars crescent growing as the spacecraft approaches the planet for gravitational assistance from May 2 to 15, 2026. The series begins with the smaller crescent in the center of the image when Mars is furthest from the spacecraft, and progressively grows larger as the
Captured by the multispectral imaging instrument on NASA’s Psyche mission, this is a color-enhanced mosaic created from four individual images acquired on May 15, 2026, during the spacecraft’s flyby of Mars. Psyche traveled from right to left (northeast to southwest on Mars) during the six minutes it took to acquire the images for this mosaic,