The Downlink • May 22, 2026 With a little help from our planet friends Space Snapshot NASA’s Psyche mission recently swung past Mars for a gravity assist on its way to the metallic asteroid Psyche. As it approached, it captured this dramatic image of the crescent red planet. Psyche came within 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles) of the planet’s surface, moving at 19,848 kilometers per hour (12,333 mile...