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 is, as of now, on the opposite side of the sun from Earth – making it impossible to observe from the ground.

But around our celestial neighbors and 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 the closer it gets to our solar system's star, public fascination with the outsider only seems to become stronger.

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