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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
NASA's Psyche mission to a metal world may reveal the mysteries of Earth's interiorAn illustration of the asteroid Psyche, orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.24K-Production/iStock via Getty Images Plus

French 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...

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