Sun ID: 3900

The Local Interstellar Wind as Seen by IBEX

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on January 31, 2012

This visual presents a color-coded full-sky neutral atom map in a Hammer projection. This map is different from earlier IBEX maps in that it shows atoms only at energies where the interstellar wind is the brightest feature in the maps.

In Earth's orbit, where IBEX makes its observations, the maximum flow (in red) is seen to arrive from Libra instead of Scorpio because the interstellar wind is forced to curve around the Sun by gravity.

Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Producer
Genna Duberstein (USRA): Producer
Dave McComas (SwRI): Scientist
Nathan Schwadron (University of New Hampshire): Scientist

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio and the University of New Hampshire.

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Mission:
IBEX

Data Used:

IBEX

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This item is part of this series:
IBEX Views the Local Interstellar Wind

Keywords:
SVS >> Solar Wind
SVS >> Space Weather
SVS >> Heliopause
SVS >> IBEX
SVS >> Heliophysics
NASA Science >> Sun
SVS >> Neutral Atom Imaging