The mission will search for evidence that the asteroid once had a magnetic field.
Credit: Peter Rubin/Arizona State University Concept
NASA and other space agencies have sent satellites to explore rock, ice and gas worlds, from Mercury to the Kuiper Belt. With the launch of the Psyche spacecraft, scientists are eager for their first close-up look at a planetary body made mostly of metal. Psyche, which lifted off onboard a SpaceX...
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