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Psyche probe launch
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(Los Angeles = Yonhap News) Correspondent Mina Lim = A spacecraft was launched to explore the asteroid ‘Psyche’ made of metal.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Space launched into space.
This spacecraft is scheduled to reach the asteroid Psyche in 2029, six years later, and then perform an exploration mission by orbiting the asteroid for at least 26 months.
The potato-shaped asteroid Psyche attracted attention because it is composed of metals such as iron and nickel, unlike other asteroids that contain a lot of rock or ice. It is located between Mars and Jupiter, and its distance from Earth is approximately 2.2 billion miles (3.6 billion km).
Scientists are hypothesizing that this asteroid may be part of the solar system’s early planet formation process, and they expect that studying this asteroid will help them learn about the formation process of the Earth and the origin of the solar system.
asteroid psyche
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