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And 3IAMOS has been declared a comet that came from some unknown place beyond our solar system, which is highly exciting because of the scientific implications of it. It is the third only recorded interstellar object that zoomed through our neck of the woods and possibly the oldest comet ever seen. And the new images were taken using a variety of techniques is the closest image and possibly the best from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. And the craft has been orbiting Mars since 2006 and has been looking for signs of water and it was using a high-resolution imaging science experiment that's referred to as high-rise. And along with that, the sun's monitoring instruments such as NASA's solar truscular relations observatory, STEREO, and the asteroid-observing Psyche and Lucy spacecraft that caught fuse in the comet's tail. And these are only now being analyzed, and the comet is estimated to be incredibly old, somewhere between seven, and as I said earlier, between seven and maybe 14 billion years. And in comparison, our solar system is about 4.6 billion years old. And some of the questions about the object being of extraterrestrial origins came about because of its speed. It was coming in at huge speeds compared to any of the comets and asteroids in our solar system. So people automatically drew the conclusion, or some drew the conclusion that it had to be powered. It was being powered by something in order for it to do that. Well, the reason behind that is just dropping.