Around a dozen missions to the moon are scheduled in 2022, along with a rover landing on Mars and a spacecraft headed to in-vestigate the metal asteroid Psyche
“Psyche could be the exposed core of an ancient shattered, disrupted protoplanet”Japan and the Russian space agency Roscosmos will also send landers, and India and the United Arab Emirates are each sending a lander and rover, as areNASA has its sights set on an asteroid called Psyche, too, with plans to launch a mission of the same name in August. It will visit the strange space rock, which is made mostly of iron and could teach us how planets form and what their metallic cores are like.
The mission will take four years to reach Psyche, where it will take photos, analyse the chemical composition of the asteroid and measure its interior structure and magnetic field. The aim is to figure out whether Psyche is an ancient planetary core, determine how it formed and extend those inferences to understand terrestrial planets.
Rosalind Franklin will carry several cameras and scientific instruments, but perhaps most exciting is a drill that can collect samples from up to 2 metres below the surface – far deeper than the 6 centimetre record set by NASA’s Curiosity rover.
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