Enlarge / The enterprise finish of the Falcon Heavy rocket launches the Psyche mission.
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Good morning. It’s October 30, and also you did not suppose I’d miss out on a rocket launch picture once in a while, did you?
This {photograph} was taken earlier this month, on October 13, through the mid-morning launch of the Psyche asteroid mission on a Falcon Heavy rocket with its 27 Merlin engines. The Psyche mission will research a metal-rich asteroid with the identical identify, and it’s NASA’s first spacecraft ever constructed to check an asteroid that has extra metallic than rock or ice. It is tremendous intriguing as a result of we do not know what we’ll discover as soon as we get there.
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