๐ธ NASA's Psyche probe stole 1,000 mph from Mars and just shared a jaw-dropping flyby time-lapse
NASA's Psyche spacecraft swung past Mars in May, using the planet's gravity to gain 1,000 mph of speed without burning a drop of fuel โ and this week JPL released a time-lapse video showing windswept craters, the south polar ice cap, and the massive Huygens crater in detail. The probe is now aimed at the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, arriving in 2029. Scientists suspect the asteroid may be the exposed iron core of an ancient shattered planet. If Psyche really is a planetary core, what does that tell us about the early solar system?
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