Forbes5 个月
There May Be Water On Psyche, The Asteroid ‘Worth $10,000 Quadrillion’
NASA’s Webb telescope has confirmed the presence of hydrated minerals on the surface of Psyche 16, a ... [+] massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. NASA’s James Webb ...
Forbes1 年
NASA’s ‘Psyche’ Mission To Quadrillion-Dollar Asteroid Is Go
near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 8, 2022. 16 Psyche is a rare metal asteroid possibly comprised of iron, nickel and gold, but that’s based only on observations of its ...
来自MSN6 个月
Is asteroid Psyche actually a planetary core? James Webb Space Telescope results cast doubt
Hydrated minerals have paradoxically been found by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on the surface of 16 Psyche, a metallic asteroid that's the target of a NASA mission that launched in ...
Earth receives its first laser message from deep space; here's what it means
In a groundbreaking achievement, NASA successfully sent a laser message from the Psyche spacecraft to Earth, spanning 16 ...
ABC News4 天
Chances of asteroid striking Earth in the next decade has nearly doubled, NASA says
Asteroid Psyche (Illustration). The worldwide astronomy community is paying close attention to this asteroid and any others that could potentially impact the planet using multiple telescopes as ...
SlashGear2 年
What Would Really Happen If We Mined a $27 Quintillion Asteroid?
In 2023, NASA plans to launch a mission to Psyche, a weird and wild metal asteroid. Psyche is 140 miles across and is composed almost entirely of iron and nickel, with some estimates suggesting ...
Business Insider India3 年
NASA is building an electric spacecraft to reach the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
NASA has scheduled the Psyche mission for August 2022. The asteroid Psyche is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The solar electric propulsion-based Psyche spacecraft is expected to ...