Gallery Type: Psyche Inspired 2025-24

May 16, 2025

Childhood of the Planets

Hoang Nguyen May 16th, 2025 Major: Astronomy Genre/Medium: digital illustration About the work: Now having established a visual code to convey hidden meaning, I invert the situation from The...
A rounded patch design featuring a cute, mini cartoon version of the spacecraft. The spacecraft has a bright silver circular face with expressive eyes, solar panels as its wings, and instrument booms as arms. Set against the asteroid and a starry dark background, with text reading 'JOURNEY to a METAL WORLD' and 'MISSION TO PSYCHE' along the edge. A blue thruster trail flows behind the spacecraft.

May 8, 2025

Chibi Psyche

Therese Manesia Cook May 8th, 2025 Major: Physics Genre/Medium: Digital/Procreate About the work: My third project, called “Chibi Psyche”, imagines the spacecraft as a mini cartoon...
A clay sculpture of a skater girl, reimagining NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. She soars mid-air over the 16 Psyche asteroid, her rollerblades powered by hall thrusters. Sunglasses mimic solar cells, and sleek wings extend from her back. Painted in Psyche mission colors, the piece blends science and art, capturing the excitement of space exploration.

May 6, 2025

Rollin’ to 16 Psyche

Alexa Jones May 6th, 2025 Major: Computer Science & Mechanical Engineering Genre/Medium: Air-Dry Clay w/ acrylic paint About the work: “Rollin’ to 16 Psyche” shows my imagining of NASA’s...
“Odyssey” is the first relief print in a diptych, or two-part series, and is meant to be paired with my third project “Agape”. This is a black handmade print on white paper portraying the spacecraft as a sleeping astronaut flying through a large, dark patch of space as she makes the long and lonely journey towards 16 Psyche.

May 2, 2025

Odyssey

Cameron Sacra May 2nd, 2025 Major: Computer Science & BA Studio Arts Genre/Medium: Lino print – Paper, water-soluable printing ink About the work: “Odyssey” is the first of two...
A cute and simple 3D model of the Psyche spacecraft has 6 customizable expressions, 8 rainbow wing and body colors, 9 wing patterns (such as hearts, stars, and the Psyche logo), and 7 hat options (such as party and cowboy hats). There are literally thousands of possible combinations of unique avatars that can be made. The UI can be toggled to allow users to save images of their creations.

April 30, 2025

Psyche Customization Station

Jessica Hall April 30th, 2025 Major: New Media Design Genre/Medium: 3D interactive web experience; Spline About the work: The Psyche Customization Station is an interactive web experience that...
Unearthing Psyche is a colored pencil on a wooden panel, depicting Psyche digging through the inner layers of Earth towards the asteroid at its center. Psyche is shown dragging swirls of blue and green with it as it reaches the asteroid. Psyche 16 asteroid is shown in colorful hues at Earth’s center.

April 28, 2025

Unearthing Psyche

Nidhi Shah April 28th, 2025 Major: Mechanical Engineering Genre/Medium: Colored Pencil on Wood About the work: Unearthing Psyche reimagines the Psyche mission not as a journey through space,...
Psyche Mission Orbit D Notebook is the last in the series. The cover is a faux stained glass made of acrylic, and constructed with solder. The pattern represents elemental maps that assign an element a color and map it across the surface to see the element distribution. LED’s light up from behind giving a gemlike effect for the final touch.

April 25, 2025

Psyche Mission Orbit D Notebook

Jessica Gurney April 25th, 2025 Major: Astronomy Genre/Medium: BookBinding About the work: The final book in the series is the Psyche Mission Orbit D Notebook. Orbit D in the mission is to study...
A colorful paper collage made of sharp geometric shapes and smooth curves. The Psyche spacecraft has large purple solar panels stretching diagonally across the canvas. The background features a pattern of pink and orange concentric circles surrounded by black space and glittery stars.

April 23, 2025

Composition

Liz Phillips April 23rd, 2025 Major: Physics Genre/Medium: Collage About the work: “Composition” is a collage depicting the Psyche spacecraft as it flies over an abstract asteroid. Its title...
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: Collage About the work: Psyche’s Touch was inspired by the spirit of human exploration within the Psyche...
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, one in red and...