Europa Clipper and Juice Team Up to Observe Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

May 13, 2026 - 15:30
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Europa Clipper and Juice Team Up to Observe Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
In November 2025, 3I/ATLAS passed between ESA’s Juice spacecraft and NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute.

When the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS passed between ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft in November 2025, scientists seized an once-in-a-lifetime chance: one spacecraft caught the comet’s glowing dayside, the other its dusty night side, simultaneously.

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