"Psyche And Lucy" : The New Missions Of NASA International Space Station
It seems that NASA International Space Hub have a number of new missions to launch. They recently stated that one of their of new missions will be the touching of the Trojan asteroid belt into the surface of Jupiter.
In a report posted by ScienceAlert, NASA has green-lit a plan to transmit a probe to a novel metal asteroid named 16 Psyche, which authorities think could be the center of an old planet, divested bare of its primary surface and outer crust.
16 Psyche, which lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is unlike anything else in our Solar System, and that means it could have revealed a lot of artifacts to researchers about how the earliest planets revolving around the sun was formed.
Meanwhile, on a different related report posted by Gizmodo, it was stated that In addition to its 67 moons, Jupiter is supplemented by two enormous clusters of asteroids that revolve the sun along the same trail, and is arranged with as many large objects as the Asteroid Belt. Yesterday, NASA declared a new mission to study these "trojan" asteroids.
NASA announced two new space missions yesterday as a component of its Discovery Program. Classified as Psyche and Lucy, these projects will use spacecraft to study the mysterious asteroids on Jupiter but the missions themselves are completely different.
The Psyche space exploration will visit a giant metal asteroid in 2030, and Lucy will examine half-dozen Trojan asteroids onwards Jupiter's orbital plane from 2027 to 2033. By investigating the Jovian Trojans, explorers will achieve a better perception about these astronomical objects and how it reached the Jupiter's gravitational field, while also getting more details and artifacts about the chemical structure of the ancient solar system.
While the Lucy mission is scheduled for launch in 2021 (the exploration is named in honor of Lucy because it's going to examine a lot of primordial asteroids). Lucy will move within the asteroid belt in 2025.