Last month, mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS came within just 18 million miles of Mars during its unusual trajectory through our solar system. Last week, representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) sent a letter to interim NASA administrator Sean Duffy, urging the space agency to release the images, which offer roughly three times the resolution of the object compared to July images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. “This information is of great importance to advancing our understanding of interstellar visitors and their interaction with our solar system,” she wrote. Whether the latest findings could support Loeb’s far more controversial theory that 3I/ATLAS could be a relic from an extraterrestrial civilization that was “sent towards the inner solar system by design,” though, remains to be seen. More on 3I/ATLAS: Mysterious Interstellar Object Showing Signs of “Non-Gravitational Acceleration”