"Although most scientists have concluded that the mysterious object is comet, NASA's Perseverance rover on the Martian surface sent back photos showing what appears to be a massive cylindrical shape. Stargazers on social media revealed color-enhanced images of object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, which showed the interstellar visitor appeared to also have a green glow as it passed Mars and heads closer to the sun."
"'The stripe in the Navcam image must have resulted from stacking hundreds of Navcam images over a total time interval of about 10 minutes,' Loeb said in a statement Sunday. The professor added that 3I/ATLAS is likely smaller and rounder, but still massive, with a potentially diameter of more than 28 miles across. Dr Drew explained that humans use the same practice on Earth-made space technology on a much smaller scale."
Extraordinary images captured after an interstellar object’s close pass by Mars show an apparent massive cylindrical shape and a green glow. NASA’s Perseverance rover returned the images while color-enhanced views circulated on social media, identifying the object as 3I/ATLAS. One astrophysicist examined the images after being asked to review them and concluded the elongated stripe likely resulted from stacking hundreds of Navcam frames over about ten minutes, and that the object is probably smaller and rounder but still potentially more than 28 miles across. A biophysicist proposed the green glow could indicate a nickel coating consistent with artificial spacecraft and rejected a comet classification, noting an amateur astronomer reported a similar extended white shape with a green coma.
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