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About IBEX

  • What is IBEX?
  • Why is the IBEX mission important?
  • How does IBEX study the boundary of the Solar System?
  • How does IBEX collect data?
  • How does IBEX create a map of the Solar System boundary?
  • How did IBEX get into space?
  • Where does IBEX orbit?
  • How does IBEX communicate data?
  • Where does IBEX get its power?
  • How did the IBEX team work together to ensure a successful mission?
  • What is the timeline for the IBEX mission?
  • What is IBEX's future?

About IBEX's Results

  • What do the first maps from IBEX show?
  • Why are IBEX's results exciting?
  • How does IBEX's data add to what we previously knew?

About the Boundary of the Solar System

  • What defines the boundary of the Solar System?
  • What is the interstellar medium?
  • What happens when the solar wind and the interstellar medium collide?
  • What is the bow shock or bow wave?
  • What is the heliopause?
  • What is the termination shock?
  • What is outside the boundary of the Solar System?
  • How does the Solar System boundary affect me?
  • What are cosmic rays?
  • How do cosmic rays affect DNA?
  • What are energetic neutral atoms?

About the Sun

  • What is the Sun made of?
  • What is plasma?
  • What is the solar wind?
  • What is a magnetic field?
  • How does the solar wind move?
  • How does the Sun's magnetic field work?

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