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NASA has readied a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for a mission that could launch from Florida as soon as tomorrow, weather permitting, for a unique destination: aof an ancient planet-like object, meaning the mission could yield invaluable clues about the early history of the solar system, its evolution, and how metallic-cored planets like Earth might have formed.
"We're trying to understand about the metal core of the Earth," Arizona State University professor and the mission's principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton. "We are never, ever going to go to those cores — way too hot, way too deep — so this is our one way to see a core.".
Besides further sleuthing the composition of the mysterious and distant world, there's even a half-cocked financial interest in Psyche: some
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SpaceX rolls out Falcon Heavy rocket for Psyche asteroid mission launch (photos)Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018. Before becoming a science writer, Michael worked as a herpetologist and wildlife biologist. He has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from the University of Sydney, Australia, a bachelor's degree from the University of
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Removal of magnetic spacecraft contamination within extraterrestrial samples easily carried out, researchers sayFor decades, scientists have pondered the mystery of the moon's ancient magnetism. Based on analyses of lunar samples, its now-deceased magnetic field may have been active for more than 1.5 billion years—give or take a billion years. Scientists believe it was generated like the Earth's via a dynamo process, whereby the spinning and churning of conductive liquid metal within a rocky planet's core generates a magnetic field.
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NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraftNASA is showing off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft
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NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraftNASA is showing off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft
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NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraftNASA is showing off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft.
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NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraftNASA is showing off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft
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