NASA's Psyche Mission

Created exclusively for the MakerWorld Master Challenge: Space Exploration - It looks really great on the wall. I believe it will make you happy.

The Psyche mission is a journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. What makes the asteroid Psyche unique is that it appears to be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks of our solar system.

Deep within rocky, terrestrial planets - including Earth - scientists infer the presence of metallic cores, but these lie unreachably far below the planets' rocky mantles and crusts. Because we cannot see or measure Earth's core directly, Psyche offers a unique window into the violent history of collisions and accretion that created terrestrial planets.

The mission is led by Arizona State University. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible for mission management, operations and navigation. The spacecraft's solar-electric propulsion chassis will be built by Maxar (formerly SSL) with a payload that includes an imager, magnetometer, and a gamma-ray spectrometer.

Current telemetry data can be found here

I thought for a long time about what color to choose for the asteroid Psyche, but since the best image we have so far looks like this, I chose white. Everyone can color it according to their own imagination.

You can print only the image itself or use the attached thematic frame as well.

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