Psyche Science Goals and Objectives (Asteroid Chillin’)
- Year
- 2020-2021
- Artist
- Aurelia L. Waller
- University
- Arizona State University
- Major
- Astronomical & Planetary Sciences
- Title
- Psyche Science Goals and Objectives (Asteroid Chillin’)
- Genre/Medium
- Animation
- Category
- digital video
- Current Location
- Digital Only
- Description
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“Psyche Science Goals and Objectives (Asteroid Chillin’)” is a song with a fun twist talking about Psyche’s science goals and objectives. I thought it would be neat to bring music to a STEM list.
Psyche Science Goals
Understand a previously unexplored building block of planet formation: iron cores.
Look inside terrestrial planets, including Earth, by directly examining the interior of a differentiated body, which otherwise could not be seen.
Explore a new type of world. For the first time, examine a world made not of rock and ice, but metal.
Psyche Science Objectives
Determine whether Psyche is a core, or if it is unmelted material.
Determine the relative ages of regions of Psyche’s surface.
Determine whether small metal bodies incorporate the same light elements as are expected in the Earth’s high-pressure core.
Determine whether Psyche was formed under conditions more oxidizing or more reducing than Earth’s core.
Characterize Psyche’s topography.
Part of Psyche Science Goals and Objectives (Asteroid Chillin’)