\ »NASA has chosen two new missions to explore the Solar System it was announced today during a media teleconference; the missions are part of NASA’s Discovery Program, and after the competing proposals had been narrowed down to five contenders, the final two winners were finally announced. Both missions, called Lucy and Psyche, will visit asteroids which have never been seen up close before – multiple Trojan asteroids which share Jupiter’s orbit and the unusual metal asteroid 16 Psyche.\ » Read the full story on AmericaSpace.com, link in bio.
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