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Asteroid 16 Psyche Could Truly Be a Psychedelic Little World—AND Worth Quadrillions

NASA recently announced the go-ahead for a new Discovery-level mission that would send a spacecraft to explore 16 Psyche, a 130-mile-wide asteroid in the Solar System’s main belt between Mars and Jupiter. 16 Psyche is a relatively small world but is made almost entirely of metals—some of them what we’d consider precious on Earth, like nickel, gold, and…

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Here's a view of #Saturn's moons Titan and Dione made from images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft 11 years ago on April 20, 2010. Cassini was 1.29 million km from Titan and 2.27 million km from Dione when the images were acquired. North on Titan is to the right. #nasa #space #solarsystem
Big news today from @NASA: the 19-inch-high, 4-lb #Ingenuity drone #Mars helicopter successfully achieved its first flight today on Mars! Part of the #Mars2020 mission, it's the first time anyone has achieved controlled, powered aerodynamic flight of a vehicle on another planet... no easy task considering the atmosphere on Mars is just 1% as dense as it is here on Earth. That's like flying a helicopter at over 100,000 feet! These are some of the first images from the event, which occurred around 3:34 a.m. EDT / 7:34 GMT this morning. There’s an from the Perseverance rover, which watched from about 64 meters away, and then a down-facing camera shot from the helicopter itself showing its shadow cast onto the surface of Mars below it. Congrats #MarsHelicopter team at @nasajpl for making off-world flight history! (Image credits NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Here’s the Ingenuity helicopter on #Mars, imaged by @NASA_Persevere's left Navcam earlier today, April 5 2021. Color- and lens distortion-adjusted. Ingenuity successfully survived its first frigid night on the surface of Mars, fully separated from the Perseverance rover. After a few more tests its first solo flight should occur on Sunday, April 11! #Mars2020
This is Perseverance's 21.5-meter-wide parachute and 4.5-meter-wide backshell on #Mars, cropped at the full 29.3 cm/pixel resolution that HiRISE was able to capture from 290 km away in orbit. Crazy. #Mars2020
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