Possibilities
Isabella Garcia
This project, “Possibilities,” is a digital painting made to depict different ideas as to what the Psyche asteroid may look like. Since we have not yet reached the asteroid and therefore do not have any pictures of it, we can only speculate what it may be. I chose to do this project because I also felt that it demonstrated the creative minds of scientists. When speaking to scientists and reading articles about the mission, it was interesting to see how the asteroid was described. While they were, of course, using technical terms, I was also inspired by how much beauty they found in wondering what the final destination may look like. I felt a connection to that imagination and wanted to portray that in my project. The four asteroids are illustrated in a “rough” or “sketchy” style for the purpose of demonstrating the fact that these are only ideas and not set in stone. From left to right, they show an asteroid with very little metal on the surface, one that is covered in large patches of metal, another that is solely covered in bedrock, and a fourth that is covered entirely with regolith (small grains of soil, not on Earth). While these are just speculations, I wanted to bring to life the most prominent ideas that scientists have regarding the image of the Psyche Asteroid.
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