NASA's Psyche mission to a metal world may reveal the mysteries of Earth's interior
- Written by Jim Bell, Professor of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
An illustration of the asteroid Psyche, orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.24K-Production/iStock via Getty Images PlusFrench novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible.
Since then, scientists have long acknowledged that Verne’s literary...





