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Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Principal Investigator, Psyche mission

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"This is the only way for humanity to ever visit a core," Elkins-Tanton has said of the mission's case for going.

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NASA's Psyche mission to a metal asteroid

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Leading the science team from Arizona State University

On Friday, NASA's Psyche spacecraft slipped past Mars at about 12,333 mph, flying within roughly 2,800 miles of the planet's surface. Mars's gravity bent its path and added speed, pointing the probe toward a metal asteroid still 280 million miles away.

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