2 Mars spacecraft get look at 3I/ATLAS. Here's what they found

Because the spacecraft are equipped with cameras that aren't designed to observe an object so far away, the images they captured were fuzzy.

Still, scientists were able to get a little bit of a look at the comet's icy nucleus and coma, the cloud of gas and dust surrounding it.

An intriguing interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS is, as of now, on the opposite side of the sun from Earth – making it impossible to observe from the ground.

But spacecraft orbiting around our celestial neighbors Mars and Jupiter are in a prime position to get a look at the object as it hurtles toward the sun. And over the course of the last few days, two Martian orbiters did exactly that – imaging the massive object as it passed relatively close to the Red Planet.

As 3I/ATLAS warps and grows the clo