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Saving JPL’s signature planetary science missions like the Mars rovers and Jupiter orbiters is more challenging.

Both orbiters used their onboard cameras to track the comet's motion.

“The Mars rover and orbiter data is fully available to the public,” Valentinas said.

October’s supermoon will be slightly closer than September’s, according to Noah Petro, a lunar reconnaissance orbiter project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Using information from a scientist, an earlier version of this spacecraft misstated which orbiters around Mars were affected by a solar storm.