Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship recipient Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton presents talk on NASA’s ‘Psyche’ mission
February 10, 2023
“Psyche” is both the name of an asteroid in the main belt, orbiting out past Mars, and the name of a NASA mission to visit that asteroid. The upcoming exploration of this asteroid marks an important first for humankind: NASA has sent people or robots to explore rocky bodies, like the Moon and Mars, and icy ones, like Europa and Enceladus, and gas-rich bodies like Jupiter, but never a body made mostly of metal.
On Friday, Feb. 24 at 3:30 p.m., Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, lead scientist of the NASA Psyche mission, will present the 2023 Day Prize Lecture "The NASA Psyche Mission: An Electric Journey to a Metal World" and will explain how the NASA mission came to be, who is working on her team, and how far they've come in building this spacecraft and preparing to launch in 2023.
The talk will be held in room 1100 at UNM’s Physics & Astronomy Interdisciplinary Science (PAÍS) building and will also be webcast. To register for the webcast, visit Day Prize Lecture Series.
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