China's Mars Orbiter Captures Images Of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS

The orbiter of China's Mars mission Tianwen-1 has successfully captured the images of an interstellar object, coded 3I/ATLAS, using its high-resolution camera, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Discovered on July 1, 2025, by a survey telescope in Chile, 3I/ATLAS is the third known interstellar object to visit the solar system and marks the first interstellar object captured by a Chinese spacecraft. During the observation, the spacecraft was about 30 million kilometers from 3I/ATLAS, making it one of the closest observations by a probe of this interstellar object.