12-01-2022 | 19:18 PM
NASA’s Psyche Mission
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.