#but (and not to downplay op's great art) the factual info is the uh main thing here so i wanted to make tht avail at least for more ppl yah
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Image 1: NASA's Psyche Mission. Presented by Heliodor and Neko
Image 2: Tomorrow at 10:19 am EST (or Saturday), NASA will be launching a spacecraft to explore 'a world of metal', an astroid named 16 Psyche, 2.2 billion miles away!
Image 3: "Psyche"? For clarification, Psyche is the name of the mission and the name of the asteroid (16 Psyche) the mission revolves around!
Image 4: This mission will be around 6 years long and will orbit the asteroid to observe its properties and visual for about 1 year.
Image 5: So is this what 16 Psyche looks like?
[The image is of a spherical objects metallic grey in colour with craters and bumps and projections]
Well, this image is a "well educated guess" based off of analysis and observations of the astroid from 2.2. billion miles away. The Mission will answer this question, and could be very similar or very different.
Image 6: So what? Why is this mission important? Why should the humans care?
Image 7: Well, other asteroids we're come across are often made up of ice or plain rock, so 16 Psyche is very unique since it's Metallic (made of or resembling metal).
Specific makeup of 16 Psyche is unknown
Image 8: The Mission to Psyche could help us understand how the cores of Earth and other planets formed.
The reason why this is important is because we haven't been able to study the cores of planets directly. Psyche might have been an old planet's core, so what better way to study something than to look at a real one!
[A drawing meant to represent earth with question marks around it and an arrow pointing to a message that says (We can't drill that far down and the temperatures are too hot)
Adjacent is a drawing meant to represent Psyche 16 and there are arrows pointing towards it and a message that says (Bingo) which is written in all caps.]
Image 9: The mission is exciting since it'll help us learn about "us" and our place in the universe!
There are so many 'firsts' with Psyche, so if you want to stay tuned with the launch check out NASA.gov/live :3
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also live nasa link : https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv/
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I’ve been given the opportunity to attend NASA’s Psyche Mission Launch and to document and share the experience with you all! I will be share more of my experience on my instagram story, but in the meantime here’s an informational about the mission taught by Heliodor and myself (Since the other rank 1’s haven’t made an entrance yet) :3
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