We live in a wondrous age. The notoriously weird comet 3I/ATLAS, which has captured people’s imagination as some astrophysicists out there think it might be mysterious alien tech, while others think it’s just the comet that does weird stuff, has been photographed by NASA from not just one planet, but two—Earth and Mars.

The weirdo space object that’s older than the solar system it’s passing through was photographed by NASA’s Perseverance rover as it whizzed by Mars in early October. Back on Earth, the European Space Agency’s Trace Gas Orbiter and China’s Tianwen-1 also snapped some pics, but NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter landed the sharpest images.

Since 3I/ATLAS will only come within 269 million kilometers of Earth on December 19, Mars is the best place for close-ups. But NASA didn

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