Question: With which of the following celestial body, NASA’s Psyche Mission proposed to be launched in 2022, is related?
a) Mars
b) Mercury
c) Venus
d) Asteroid
Answer: (d)
Related Facts:-
- The US space agency NASA is preparing future Psyche Mission, under this mission a spacecraft will be sent to Asteroid 16 Psyche.
- The testing of this craft has now reached the final stage and expected launch could take place in 2022.
- Under the ‘Psyche mission’, the spacecraft will orbit the metal-rich Asteroid 16 Psyche and examine its composition.
- Asteroid 16 Psyche is orbiting the sun within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
- The spacecraft will map the asteroid and study ancient magnetic fields and neutron and gamma-ray emissions.
- Scientists will try to find out how the solar system formed and evolved by combining the results of this discovery with other data.
- Recently scientific discoveries have shown that Psyche lacks iron oxide, despite being rich in metal.
- This is strange because iron oxide is present on all other planets.
- Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University, said strange facts could be revealed in future about the structure of Psyche.
- NASA’s spacecraft will have the necessary equipment to unravel the mysteries of Psyche.
- Jim Bell of Psyche Mission said, ‘Nobody knows what we’re going to see. The truth is just that the reality of Psyche will be more strange and beautiful than we imagined.
- Earlier there was news that NASA has found so many precious metals on Psyche Asteroid that every person on earth can become a billionaire.
- According to NASA, the value of this immeasurable wealth is $10,000,000,000,000,000,000.
- NASA re-measured the surface of the Psyche asteroid and based on that the latest estimate was made.
Links:-
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/science-of-psyche-unique-asteroid-holds-clues-to-early-solar-system