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Psyche Inspired
The View On Board
Nidhi Shah
January 15th, 2025
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Genre/Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
About the work:
“The View On Board” aims to place the audience—both the engineers and scientists of Psyche as well as the general public, you and I—onto the spacecraft as it approaches the Psyche asteroid. The room isn’t anything special, with some connections to space exploration like the model solar system hanging from the ceiling or the telescope looking out into the cosmos. Taters is sitting on the couch and again in the mirror reflection, and those lucky peanuts are on the centerpiece. Yet, when you look outside the window, maybe take a step onto the balcony, it’s a whole different world. The breathtaking beauty of the Psyche asteroid fills your view. It’s not just a mission for the scientists who are excited to analyze the data Psyche collects. We’re right there along with the Psyche spacecraft, hearing about her discoveries as they occur. It’s a mission for all of us as we seek to answer the curiosities of the world beyond our own. Except, this time, this new world might uncover truths about our world.
Psyche Inspired Overview
Psyche Inspired is a program that brings undergraduate students from any discipline or major together to share the excitement, innovation, and scientific and engineering content of NASA’s Psyche mission with the public in new ways through artistic and creative works. These works are posted in the gallery above and highlighted on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. View the full resolution images in the image gallery. This year’s Psyche Inspired cohort is known as the Iridium Class.
Psyche Inspired was piloted at ASU during the 2017-2018 academic year. The following academic year, Psyche Inspired expanded nationally! The works from each Psyche Inspired cohort are collected in individual downloadable books that tell the story of Psyche through musical scores, sculptures, painting, 3-D models, photography, acrylic art, needlepoint, stop-motion films, mixed media, and more.
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