Avi Loeb

And the question is,

What is producing that light?

What is scattering sunlight?

And the unusual thing about it, as soon as this was released, the comet experts said, oh, yeah, now it's proven it's a comet.

But I said, look, it's the sun facing emission that is elongated.

It's not the other side.

The extent of the glow...

backwards, away from the sun is the same as sideways.

You don't see any cometary tail here.

And in fact, we're looking at it just like a cigar along the long axis.

So it should be 10 times longer than it is wide if you were to look at it from the side.

Amazingly,

The best image was obtained on October 2nd, 2025, when 3-Eye Atlas came within 30 million kilometers of Mars.

And it was taken by the high-rise camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is operated by NASA.

As you remember, October 1st was the government shutdown.

So October 2nd, the data was taken.

but it was never released.

I wrote to the principal investigator of HiRISE, asked, can I get the data?

I'm a scientist.

You can do the press release afterwards.