NASA’s Psyche Mission  

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• NASA is going to launch its ambitious ‘Psyche mission’ in August 2022.

• It will be the first launch to explore a giant metal asteroid known as Psyche in the main asteroid belt. 

• The asteroid Psyche is in between Mars & Jupiter and is orbiting the Sun. 

• The Psyche mission is one among the two missions of NASA to explore the early Solar System.

• The Lucy mission is another mission to explore Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids in order to study the early Solar System.

• Asteroid Psyche appears to be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks of our solar system.

• The mission is led by Arizona State University. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible for mission management, operations and navigation.

Interesting Fact:

For the first time ever, we are exploring a world made not of rock or ice, but of metal.