NASA Surface Data VR – UCI – D

INSTITUTION

University of California, Irvine (UCI)

CLASS

Iridium Class (2024 – 2025)

STUDENT TEAM

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The NASA Psyche mission is an orbiter mission to the metal-rich asteroid, Psyche, in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft, which launched in October 2023 and will arrive at the asteroid in mid-2029, will study the asteroid from orbit and will not land on the surface. In preparation for arrival at Psyche, the team will create a Virtual Reality experience of standing on another planetary body, using stereo pairs and color (if available) from the team’s choice of:

– Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) images;
– HiRISE orbiter camera images of Mars;
– HiRISE orbiter images of Phobos or Deimos;
– OSIRIS REx asteroid mission images.

This project will showcase the actual data and what is already known about other non-Earth bodies and prepare for the datasets that will be returned from Psyche in the future.

This work was created in partial fulfillment of the University of California, Irvine Capstone Course “INF 191A”. 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.