M-Type Asteroid Sampling Simulator – Psyche Asteroid Interactive Web App
INSTITUTION
Arizona State University (ASU)
CLASS
Iridium Class (2024 – 2025)
STUDENT TEAM
Ash Ashour, Computer Science
Dillon Garcia, Computer Science
Viet Le, Computer Science
Aureliano Ceballos, Computer Science
ACADEMIC GUIDANCE
Cassie Bowman
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Our project is an interactive educational web app focused on the NASA Psyche asteroid mission. It presents key facts and high-quality images of the asteroid while enhancing accessibility through a built-in text-to-speech feature. The app also includes a progress bar that tracks user engagement as they explore different sections of the content.
This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Arizona State University Capstone Course “___”. The work is a result of the Psyche Student Collaborations component of NASA’s Psyche Mission (https://psyche.asu.edu). “Psyche: A Journey to a Metal World” [Contract number NNM16AA09C] is part of the NASA Discovery Program mission to solar system targets. Trade names and trademarks of ASU and NASA are used in this work for identification only. Their usage does not constitute an official endorsement, either expressed or implied, by Arizona State University or National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of ASU or NASA.