NASA and Arizona State University scientists are sending a spacecraft to the strange asteroid Psyche, which they believe may be a mostly metal core of an object from our early solar system. This special program will reveal the cameras and other instruments on the spacecraft, as well as the personal and scientific challenges the team has faced getting the mission to the launch pad.
Psyche Mission: First to Metal, an Origin Story is a local public television program presented by Arizona PBS
Psyche Mission: First to Metal, An Origin Story
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The quest to understand the secrets of Earth’s metallic core. (27m 45s)
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