Introduction to the Heliopause
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- Visualizations by:
- Walt Feimer
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Dr. Merav Opher talks about the heliopause, the distant region where the solar wind collides with the interstellar medium. She is an astrophysicist and an associate professor of physics and astronomy at George Mason University. These short videos were produced for the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum and the Space Weather Media Viewer. The Space Weather Media Viewer is an application built to support Education and Public Outreach activities of NASA. Many of the images that appear in this viewer are "near-real time" and come from a variety of NASA Missions.
What are the consequences of this new knowledge to our understanding of the heliosphere?
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What do we expect to learn from the heliosphere in the next couple of years?
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
- Chris Meaney (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Video editors
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Swarupa Nune (InuTeq)
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Scientist
- Merav Opher (Boston University)
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Producer
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Videographer
- Brooke Harris (USRA)
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
Understanding the Heliopause
(ID: 2010087)
Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 4:00AM
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