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Exploring a Metal Asteroid

The Psyche mission will visit an asteroid that appears to be the nickel-iron core of a planet from the early Solar System.

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A Unique, Metal-Rich World

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Bringing Space Back to Earth

OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. It returned to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, carrying material from asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft continued on to a new mission to explore asteroid Apophis.

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