NASA is gearing up for another asteroid mission called Psyche, which aims to study an asteroid of the same name. The Psyche mission is driven by the desire to better understand Earth. With limited information obtained from telescopes like NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), scientists have discovered that Psyche is an unusually metal-rich asteroid. In conclusion, NASA’s Psyche mission represents an exciting opportunity to explore and study a metal-rich asteroid in the asteroid belt. While the mining of resources in space remains a distant goal, the mission raises prospects for potential future space mining endeavors.

Source: CBC News October 09, 2023 08:32 UTC