Team 503: Robotic Explorer for Hypothesized Surfaces

The Mission

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Psyche

Psyche is theorized to be the core of an unformed planet and is composed of large amounts of exposed nickel and iron. Psyche has a diameter of about 226 kilometers (roughly the size of massachusetts) and has a gravity around 1.4% that of earths

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Why Psyche?

Studying Psyche would allow for scientists to be able to study the core of an unformed planet to gain a fundamental understanding of how our own planet was formed

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Our Mission

The objective for our senior design project is to build a robot capable of traversing the hypothesized surfaces of the asteroid 16 Psyche