Solar Neutral Particles
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- Visualizations by:
- Walt Feimer
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This animation shows a charged solar particle's path leaving the sun, while following the magnetic field lines out to the heliosheath. The solar particle hits a hydrogen atom, stealing its electron and becoming neutral. We then follow it until we see it hit one of IBEX's detectors.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
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Scientist
- Dave McComas (SwRI)
Missions
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This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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IBEX
ID: 207
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