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NASA's Psyche spacecraft to race past Mars in hunt for clues about how Earth was formed

The crucial manoeuvre scheduled for Friday will use the gravity of Mars to shift Psyche onto the right path, a faster and cheaper method NASA scientists say could help unlock clues about the birth of Earth.

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00:21The Mars gravity assist helps us to actually go faster and also change the plane.
00:28So, like for instance, Earth orbit around the Sun and Psyche orbit is about three degrees different like this.
00:37So you can make a plane change to get in line with the Psyche asteroid, right?
00:42And that's very expensive if you want to do it by rocket.
00:56No spacecraft has ever flown to this kind of asteroid before, something that's really a big lump of metal.
01:03And so I'm really excited to find out what the scientists learn about the asteroid.
01:08Is it what they think it is, perhaps a planetesimal form from the earliest days of the solar system?
01:14Perhaps it's something completely different.
01:16And I'm certain that whatever it is will tell us more about the evolution of planets in our solar system
01:22and the Earth.
01:41The Earth orbit around the Sun and Psyche orbit around the Sun and Psyche orbit around the Sun.
01:43The Earth orbit around the Sun.
01:44The Moon orbit around the Sun is challenged by the answer to a cloud Dolby Eze.
01:44I can see on the ground water probably some people there, but it's not necessarily an advancedpletion, so.
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