Arizona State University – ASU – C

“Asteroid Surface VR”

INSTITUTION

Arizona State University (ASU)

CLASS

Tungsten Class (2023 – 2024)

STUDENT TEAM

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL GUIDANCE

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

Professor Vijay Suthar
Professor Abdallah Moubayed
Dr. Cassie Bowman
TA Kyle Cenatiempo

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This project seeks to offer an educating VR experience of what it might be like to explore the surface of an asteroid like Psyche. Users will be able to collect “samples” of the asteroid to learn more about its composition, and engage in learning modules about NASA’s Psyche Mission, Small Celestial Bodies in our Solar System, Stereoscopic Images in Space Exploration, and the Psyche Spacecraft.

This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Arizona State University Capstone Course “SER 401”. 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.