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            "release_date": "2013-10-30T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Five Years of Great Discoveries for NASA's IBEX",
            "description": "Launched on Oct. 19, 2008, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft, is unique to NASA's heliophysics fleet: it images the outer boundary of the heliosphere, a boundary at the furthest edges of the solar system, far past the planets, some 8 million miles away. There, the constant stream of solar particles flowing off the sun, the solar wind, pushes up against the interstellar material flowing in from the local galactic neighborhood.IBEX is also different because it creates images from particles instead of light. IBEX, scientists create maps from the observed neutral atoms. Some are of non-solar origin, others were created by collisions of solar wind particles with other neutral atoms far from the sun. Observing where these energetic neutral atoms, or ENAs, come from describes what's going on in these distant regions. Over the course of six months and many orbits around Earth, IBEX can paint a picture of the entire sky in ENAs.During its first five years, IBEX has made some astounding discoveries.IBEX is a NASA Heliophysics Small Explorer mission. The Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, leads IBEX with teams of national and international partners. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the Explorers Program for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. || ",
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            "release_date": "2013-07-10T13:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "IBEX Heliotail Observations",
            "description": "The IBEX (Interstellar Boundary EXplorer) continues to collect data on the flux of neutral atoms from the boundary of the solar wind with the interstellar medium.Starting with the IBEX satellite in orbit around the Earth, we zoom out to beyond the orbit of Neptune, illustrating the direction of the Sun relative to the local stars (red arrow) and relative to the local interstellar medium (violet arrow). These directions are different because the local interstellar medium (mostly gas and dust) move relative to the local stars.The boundaries of the termination shock (red ellipsoidal surface) and heliopause (green) created by the interaction of the solar wind with the interstellar medium is displayed. The camera rotates to a view 'nose on' with the heliopause, and a sphere is faded in representing the region where the neutral atoms detected by IBEX originate. The sphere around the Sun is 'unwrapped' to reproject the IBEX data into an approximately Aitoff projection. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10908/",
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            "release_date": "2012-05-10T09:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "IBEX: Observing the Sun's Horizon",
            "description": "The Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, is the first mission designed to map the entire region of the boundary of our Solar System. As charged particles from the Sun, called the \"solar wind,\" flow outward well beyond the orbits of the planets, they collide with the material between the stars, called the \"interstellar medium\" (ISM). These interactions create energetic neutral atoms (ENAs), particles with no charge that move very quickly. This region emits no light that can be collected by conventional telescopes so, instead, IBEX measures the particles that happen to be traveling inward from the boundary. IBEX contains two detectors designed to collect and measure ENAs, providing data about the mass, location, direction of origin, and energy of these particles. From these data, maps of the boundary are created. IBEX's sole, focused science objective is to discover the nature of the interactions between the solar wind and the interstellar medium at the edge of our Solar System. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3900/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2012-01-31T13:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "The Local Interstellar Wind as Seen by IBEX",
            "description": "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. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10906/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2012-01-31T13:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "NASA's IBEX Spacecraft Reveals New Observations of Interstellar Matter",
            "description": "A great magnetic bubble surrounds the solar system as it cruises through the galaxy. The sun pumps the inside of the bubble full of solar particles that stream out to the edge until they collide with the material that fills the rest of the galaxy, at a complex boundary called the heliosheath. On the other side of the boundary, electrically charged particles from the galactic wind blow by, but rebound off the heliosheath, never to enter the solar system. Neutral particles, on the other hand, are a different story. They saunter across the boundary as if it weren't there, continuing on another 7.5 billion miles for 30 years until they get caught by the sun's gravity, and sling shot around the star. There, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer lies in wait for them. Known as IBEX for short, this spacecraft methodically measures these samples of the mysterious neighborhood beyond our home. IBEX scans the entire sky once a year, and every February, its instruments point in the correct direction to intercept incoming neutral atoms. IBEX counted those atoms in 2009 and 2010 and has now captured the best and most complete glimpse of the material that lies so far outside our own system. The results? It's an alien environment out there: the material in that galactic wind doesn't look like the same stuff our solar system is made of.More than just helping to determine the distribution of elements in the galactic wind, these new measurements give clues about how and where our solar system formed, the forces that physically shape our solar system, and even the history of other stars in the Milky Way.In a series of science papers appearing in the Astrophysics Journal on January 31, 2012, scientists report that for every 20 neon atoms in the galactic wind, there are 74 oxygen atoms. In our own solar system, however, for every 20 neon atoms there are 111 oxygen atoms. That translates to more oxygen in any given slice of the solar system than in the local interstellar space. For media associated with this release, go to #10905 and #3900. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3769/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2010-09-30T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "IBEX Skymaps and the Bright Stars",
            "description": "In this image set, the brighter stars from the Tycho skymap have been reprojected into positions corresponding to the coordinate system used by the IBEX mission.The colors represent the number of neutral atoms (in the specified band of energies) detected by IBEX in each block of sky. Each block in the map is roughly a square about 6 degrees by 6 degrees (or the width of 12 full Moons, on a side). For the energy band displayed of 2.73 keV, violet corresponds to undetectable emission, while red corresponds to the detection of about 50 atoms per second per square centimeter in the angular segment of the sky. There is a 'hole' in the data (black) created when the IBEX scan cuts through the Earth's magnetotail.The images in this set have been co-registered for easy compositing. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3770/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2010-09-30T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "IBEX Observes Changes in Heliopause Emission",
            "description": "The camera view moves from the heliosphere 'nose', the apparent direction of the heliopause relative to the interstellar wind, towards the 'knot'. The 'knot' represents a direction of high emission of neutral atoms which has changed significantly in the six months since the first IBEX map.We fade-in an artistic conception of the 'knot', which untangles during the six months as we fade to the second IBEX map. || ",
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            "id": 10499,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10499/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2009-10-15T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Zoom from the Milky Way Galaxy to our Heliosphere",
            "description": "This is an updated version of an older animation. Starting with a view of our Milky Way galaxy, the orange gas in the animation represents the interstellar medium. The bow shock is created because the heliosphere is moving through like a boat through the water, crashing through the interstellar gases. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10332/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2008-10-22T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Solar Neutral Particles",
            "description": "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. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10351/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2008-09-16T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Launch and Deployment of IBEX",
            "description": "This animation show the IBEX spacecraft being launched on a pegasus delivery system till it's on station near the Moon. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10260/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2008-06-14T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "IBEX: Exploring The Edge Of Our Solar System",
            "description": "IBEX is a new NASA mission that will study the interaction between the solar wind and the material beyond our Solar System called the interstellar medium. The solar wind flowing out of the sun inflates a bubble that we call the heliosphere. IBEX's job is to study those boundaries and understand how they really work and tell us how the heliosphere is able to do the important job of protecting us here on Earth as well as astronauts in space from the dangerous galactic cosmic rays.To learn more about IBEX, go to www.nasa.gov/ibex. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20131/",
            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2007-12-10T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)",
            "description": "These animations show IBEX and it's two imagers specialized to detect neutral atoms from the solar system's outer boundaries and galactic medium. || ",
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