Gallery Type: Artwork from Psyche Inspired

In an empty, grassy plain, a personified Earth and Falcon Heavy wave goodbye to the Psyche spacecraft, represented as an android, who stands in the distance with Mars. Farther still, a bridge of clouds connects the plain to where the asteroid hangs in the sky among a field of stars.

April 21, 2025

Fare Thee Well

Hoang Nguyen June 26th, 2025 Major: Astronomy Genre/Medium: digital illustration About the work: As this series comes to a close, I wanted to end with a farewell to the spacecraft. I’ve cast...
Psyche's Touch is a small plaster asteroid fits in your hand. Raised ripples radiate out like waves in water from the hand print underneath. This sculpture captures a moment of touch echoing outward, like a quiet ripple through space.

April 17, 2025

Psyche’s Touch

Madelaine T. Vu April 17th, 2025 Major: Neuroscience and Psychology Genre/Medium: Silicone Mold About the work: Psyche’s Touch was inspired by the spirit of human exploration within the...
This interactive scroll-motion project is a short journal that follows the Psyche spacecraft's mission to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche

April 15, 2025

Psyche Mission 101

Injir Batmunkh Arpil 15th, 2025 Major: Scientific Illustration and Visualization Genre/Medium: Digital, Adobe animate, JavaScript, Github About the work: For my third project, I wanted to challenge...
The front of the card asks the question “How big is Psyche?”. When the card unfolds, it expands to three times its original size. Colored panels in the middle make up the Psyche spacecraft. Two larger panels on either side give facts about Psyche’s size and weight, stating that the spacecraft weighs as much as four cows, and is the size of a tennis court with its solar arrays extended.

April 9, 2025

How Big IS Psyche?

Carrie Geisler April 9th, 2025 Major: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Genre/Medium: Papercraft/ Pop-up Card About the work: This project, entitled “How Big IS Psyche?,” is a double tri-shutter...
Psyche stands dressed in a funeral gown, and holding a bouquet of flowers. She wears a blindfold, her head tilted downward, and her shoulders are slumped as an arrow pierces her heart. Overlaid on top of this image, is another version of Psyche. She stands tall and confident as she meets the gaze of a monstrous serpent. Butterfly wings sprout from her back, a symbol of her newly achieved godhood.

April 7, 2025

Transformation

Brooke Flanagan April 7th, 2025 Major: Graphic Design Genre/Medium: Digital Anaglyph Art About the work: “Transformation” is a digital anaglyph piece where two images are created,...
Orbit C Notebook is the third in the series discussing the gravity field science. The cover features an inset cone, mimicking space time, and LED’s with an animation of direction of acceleration. The interior is hand sewn with circles cut out of the pages to allow the cone to sit flush inside and finished with marbled end pages.

April 2, 2025

Psyche Mission Orbit C Notebook

Jessica Gurney April 3rd, 2025 Major: Astronomy Genre/Medium: BookBinding About the work: Psyche Mission Orbit C Notebook is the third book in the series. Orbit C studies the gravity field around...
“Do you remember? How it all began?” An old man’s eye reflects a communal hearth within a cave. “Humans were always storytellers. On dark nights, heroes lit the skies.” Figures huddle around another small fire under the stars. “Science let us dream with our eyes open.” Ancient observatories, “Searching for answers, finding more questions,” pyramids, and temples align with the constellations. “With better eyes, we saw more than stars.” Astronomical imaging evolves from Galileo’s telescope to Psyche’s multispectral imager. “A lonely island of metal calls us back home” Psyche compared to Earth’s metallic core “Do you remember? Your origins?” A future scientist handling plants aboard a spaceship reflects on humanity’s past.

March 31, 2025

Origins

Veronica Keff March 31st, 2025 Major: Astrophysics, Minor in Mathematics Genre/Medium: Digital comic (procreate), final version printed into foldable booklet About the work: “Origins” reflects...
Pictured is composer Rebecca Farmer with the song "Journey to the Metal World" playing in the background.

March 28, 2025

Journey to the Metal World

Rebecca Farmer March 28th, 2025 Major: BA in Music with an Emphasis in Composition Genre/Medium: Instrumental Pop Song Created in Logic Pro X About the work: The instrumental composition “Journey...
The first card says, "Thank you for lighting up my world", and showcases the Psyche spacecraft warmly smiling at the sun. The second card says, "I can't wait to see you!", and showcases the Psyche spacecraft very excited as it hovers above the Psyche asteroid. The final card says, "Thanks to you, I would not have made it this far!" and shows the Psyche spacecraft flybying Mars.

March 26, 2025

Psyche Greeting Cards

Madelaine T. Vu March 26th, 2025 Major: Neuroscience and Psychology Genre/Medium: Digital About the work: For this project, I wanted to make some cute and simple greeting cards of the Psyche...
Small green mountains are painted and collaged at the bottom of the painting and a large antenna sits among them; above is a blue sky with clouds painted on top of a background of old book pages about various scientific topics. At the top of the painting is a collage of images of stars, which funnel down toward the antenna. On top of the stars is a protruding construction of the Psyche spacecraft.

March 24, 2025

Sending Letters Home

JESSICA HALL March 24th, 2025 Major: New Media Design Genre/Medium: Collage/Acrylic painting on canvas; magazines, thrifted childrens’ books, science books, book board, tinfoil, aluminum wire,...
A black-and-white printed illustration of Psyche, portrayed as a giant woman holding a tiny, floating spacecraft in her hand. She sits in front of an asteroid floating in a circular black void, with its two large craters framing her head and the spacecraft. Psyche is dressed in ancient Greek-inspired robes with insect-like wings and long hair. She is crying and smiling at the little spacecraft.

March 20, 2025

Agape

CAMERON SACRA March 20th, 2025 Major: Computer Science & BA Studio Arts Genre/Medium: Linocut About the work: “Agape” was directly inspired by the Psyche spacecraft’s projected 2029...
The cover says "Letters to The Universe" on an envelope. The whole zine reads, "Dear Universe, we sent out a friend. I'm sure you may have met. Not to worry she isn't lost, she's looking for her namesake. Perhaps they can answer her questions that we cannot. We wonder what she'll see on that long journey ahead. She's alone out there. Keep her company, won't you? Sincerely, Earth".

March 18, 2025

Letters to The Universe

ASH SORIANO March 18th, 2025 Major: Media Arts & Sciences Genre/Medium: Digital – created in Procreate, printed & folded physically About the work: “Letters to The Universe”...