The JUICE and Psyche missions will launch in 2023 to study Jupiter’s largest moon and the planet’s possible iron core in hopes of understanding how the world became habitable
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December 28, 2022
Little is known about asteroid Psyche, but that’s about to change Peter Rubin/NASA
Asteroids will be the focus of space exploration in 2023. With the launch of two flagship missions, one to a moon of Jupiter and the other to a strange metallic asteroid, we are poised to unravel the many mysteries of how these asteroids formed and what they look like today. These findings should lead to a broader understanding of the habitability of our solar system.
The first mission is Jupiter’s ice…
