{"data":{"id":2092,"lang":"en","title":"NASA's Psyche Spacecraft Aces Mars Flyby, Delivers Time-Lapse and Instrument Data Ahead of 2029 Asteroid Encounter","summary":"NASA's Psyche spacecraft used a Mars gravity assist to validate its instruments and speed toward a 2029 rendezvous with a metal-rich asteroid.","category":"science","category_label":"Science","published_at":"2026-07-29T06:01:12Z","updated_at":"2026-07-29T06:01:12Z","url":"https://techtools.cz/tools/news/article/2092-nasa-s-psyche-spacecraft-aces-mars-flyby-delivers-time-lapse-and-instrument","api_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/2092?lang=en","markdown_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/2092.md?lang=en","image_url":"https://d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net/images/E2_PIA26749_Psyche_Imager_Mars_Mosaic1_F247E.width-1024.png","word_count":151,"reading_time_minutes":1,"sources":[{"url":"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-psyche-mission-delivers-mars-flyby-data-time-lapse-video/","domain":"jpl.nasa.gov"},{"url":"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260727214612.htm","domain":"sciencedaily.com"}],"translation":{"lang":"cs","id":2165,"title":"Sonda Psyche zvládla průlet kolem Marsu, přinesla time-lapse video a data z přístrojů před setkáním s asteroidem v roce 2029","url":"https://techtools.cz/tools/news/clanek/2165-sonda-psyche-zvladla-prulet-kolem-marsu-prinesla-time-lapse-video-a-data-z","api_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/2165?lang=cs"},"content":"NASA's Psyche spacecraft used a gravity-assist flyby of Mars on May 15 to bend its trajectory toward the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, passing just 2,864 miles (4,609 km) above the planet's surface. The maneuver both boosted the probe's speed and gave mission scientists a rare chance to test its instruments in a real planetary environment.\n\nDuring the pass, Psyche's multispectral imager captured a time-lapse video and an enhanced-color mosaic showing windblown craters, the south polar ice cap, and the large double-ringed Huygens crater. The spacecraft's magnetometer and gamma-ray/neutron spectrometer also gathered data, all of which matched existing knowledge of Mars — validating the instruments ahead of the mission's real target.\n\nLaunched in 2023, Psyche is now on course to reach its namesake asteroid — a metal-rich body in the belt between Mars and Jupiter — in summer 2029, where it will study a world scientists believe may be a remnant planetary core."}}