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ESA’s ExoMars and Mars Express observe comet 3I/ATLAS


Between 1 and 7 <sup>October</sup>, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Express spacecraft turned their eyes towards interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, as it passed close to Mars.

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