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Early on the morning of Jan. 10, the team confirmed the spacecraft had successfully entered its final L1 orbit, where it will stay for the duration of its mission.From L1, IMAP will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — the protective bubble created by the solar wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.Learn more about the milestone: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/imap/2026/01/12/nasas-imap-mission-reaches-its-destination/ || ", "hits": 354 }, { "id": 5609, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5609/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2026-01-26T05:00:00-05:00", "title": "Heliophysics Satellite Fleet - 2026", "description": "A tour of the NASA Heliophysics fleet from near-Earth satellites out to the Voyagers beyond the heliopause.", "hits": 720 }, { "id": 14921, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14921/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-21T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft arrived May 10, 2025, for processing at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will study how the Sun shapes the boundaries of the heliosphere, the bubble around our solar system. A semitrailer transported the spacecraft from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, after completing thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the harsh conditions of space, at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility. Astrotech provides the facility and technicians to prepare the spacecraft for launch, including fueling and encapsulation. The IMAP spacecraft launched Sept. 24, 2025, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy. || ", "hits": 182 }, { "id": 14904, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14904/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA, NOAA Launch Three Spacecraft to Map Sun’s Influence Across Space", "description": "NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched three new missions Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, to investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system.At 7:30 a.m. EDT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the agency’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1) spacecraft.Learn more about IMAP: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/Learn more about Carruthers Geocorona Observatory: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/Learn more about SWFO-L1: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/swfo-l1/ || ", "hits": 213 }, { "id": 14895, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14895/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-17T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mapping the Boundaries of Our Home in Space with NASA’s IMAP Mission", "description": "NASA’s new Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our solar system — and study how that boundary interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will chart the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate two of the most important overarching issues in heliophysics — the energization of charged particles from the Sun, and the interaction of the solar wind with interstellar space. Additionally, IMAP will support near real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. IMAP is launching no earlier than Sept. 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Learn more about IMAP science: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/nasas-imap-mission-to-study-boundaries-of-our-home-in-space/Find out more about the IMAP mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/ || ", "hits": 171 }, { "id": 14898, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14898/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-15T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Our Home In Space Series", "description": "The heliosphere, the massive bubble created by our Sun, is like our “house” in space. It shelters us from harsh weather outside and regulates the environment inside. Without our heliosphere, Earth may never have developed life at all. But there’s a lot we still don’t know about our cosmic home. How big is it, and what is it shaped like? How does it compare to the “houses” created by other stars? A new NASA mission will soon unlock answers to these questions and more. Launching as early as Sept. 23, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe will help us construct the “blueprints” or our home in space. This three-part series explores how we learn about our heliosphere, how it protects us, and how it advances the search for life elsewhere in the Universe. || ", "hits": 175 }, { "id": 14896, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14896/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-12T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's IMAP Mission (Trailer)", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, is a new mission that will map the boundaries of our heliosphere — a giant protective bubble created by the Sun that encapsulates our solar system. The spacecraft will study the Sun’s activity and how the heliosphere boundary interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.The heliosphere protects the solar system from dangerous high-energy particles called galactic cosmic rays. Mapping the heliosphere’s boundaries helps scientists understand our home in space and how it came to be habitable. IMAP is launching no earlier than Sept. 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Learn more about the IMAP mission. || ", "hits": 106 }, { "id": 14885, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14885/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-12T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: Groundbreaking New NASA Mission Will Give Us The Most Detailed Look Yet At Our Solar System’s Shield", "description": "Scroll down page for associated cut b-roll and pre-recorded soundbites. || IMAP_banner.jpeg (1600x640) [185.0 KB] || IMAP_banner_print.jpg (1024x409) [110.6 KB] || IMAP_banner_searchweb.png (320x180) [73.1 KB] || IMAP_banner_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || ", "hits": 160 }, { "id": 20406, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20406/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-22T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Heliosphere Within The Milky Way Galaxy", "description": "Our solar system is nestled inside the Milky Way galaxy, home to more than 100 billion stars. Stretching for millions of miles around the solar system is a protective bubble called the heliosphere. Created by particles and magnetic fields from the Sun, the heliosphere separates our solar system from the vast galaxy beyond — and much of its harsh space radiation that can be damaging to life on Earth. || ", "hits": 833 }, { "id": 20409, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20409/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-22T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Heliosphere and Galactic Cosmic Rays", "description": "Surrounding our solar system is a giant protective bubble created by particles and magnetic fields from the Sun called the heliosphere. Every 11 years, the Sun’s activity ramps up and down in what’s known as the solar cycle. As the Sun reaches its peak activity level, called solar maximum, the heliosphere expands. During this time, the heliosphere’s protective shield is strengthened by the increase in particles and magnetic fields from the Sun. As a result, fewer damaging particles from the galaxy, such as galactic cosmic rays, are able to penetrate into the heliosphere. As the Sun ramps down into a low level of activity, called solar minimum, the heliosphere shrinks and more cosmic rays are able to enter the heliosphere. || ", "hits": 448 }, { "id": 20410, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20410/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Beauty Passes", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will also explore and chart the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate two of the most important overarching issues in heliophysics — the energization of charged particles from the Sun, and the interaction of the solar wind at its boundary with interstellar space. Additionally, IMAP will support real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. The IMAP spacecraft will be located at Lagrange Point 1, or L1. Lagrange points are positions in space where objects sent there tend to stay put. At L1, which is around 1 million miles from Earth towards the Sun, the gravitational pull of the Sun and Earth are balanced, allowing spacecraft to reduce fuel consumption needed to remain in position. At L1, IMAP will have a clear view of the heliosphere and will also be positioned to provide advanced warning of incoming solar storms headed to Earth. Learn more about IMAP.Below are conceptual animations highlighting the IMAP spacecraft. || ", "hits": 229 }, { "id": 5567, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5567/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-07-21T18:59:59-04:00", "title": "New Missions to L1", "description": "Three missions, Carruthers, IMAP and SWFO-L1 will be launched to the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point, L1.", "hits": 142 }, { "id": 14816, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14816/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-11T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on March 18, 2025, to undergo testing prior to launch. At Marshall, IMAP will be exposed to extreme temperature changes during a 28-day-long test inside a thermal vacuum chamber (TVAC). By simulating the harsh conditions in space, scientists and engineers can identify any potential issues before launch.To learn more about the testing visit: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/imap/2025/05/07/nasas-imap-completes-thermal-vacuum-testing-campaign/After thermal vacuum testing concluded at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, IMAP was transported to Florida: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/imap/2025/05/10/nasas-interstellar-mapping-mission-arrives-in-florida/ || ", "hits": 111 }, { "id": 14803, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14803/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-03-17T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s SPHEREX and PUNCH Missions Launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base", "description": "Ignition, and liftoff! At 11:10 p.m. EDT (8:10 p.m. PDT) March 11, 2025, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 4 East, carrying NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) missions.SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will orbit Earth for a two-year prime mission and create a three-dimensional map of the cosmos. This will help scientists answer major questions about what happened in the first second after the big bang, how galaxies form and evolve, and the origins and abundance of water and other key ingredients for life in our galaxy.Ride-sharing with SPHEREx was NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which will study the outer portion of the Sun, the corona, to understand how solar wind forms.For more information on SPHEREx: nasa.gov/spherexFor more information on PUNCH: science.nasa.gov/mission/punch || ", "hits": 124 }, { "id": 14784, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14784/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-02-13T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Mission Media Teleconference", "description": "NASA held a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 4, to share information about the agency’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which is targeted to launch no earlier than Thursday, February 27, 2025.The agency’s PUNCH mission is a constellation of four small satellites. When they arrive in low Earth orbit, the satellites will make global, 3D observations of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, and help NASA learn how the mass and energy there become solar wind. By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission will share a ride to space with NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) space telescope on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.The Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, leads the PUNCH mission. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.To learn more about PUNCH, please visit: nasa.gov/punch || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 14773, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14773/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-02-04T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's PUNCH Mission", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun’s corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.Watch the video to learn how imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together will help scientists better understand the entire inner heliosphere — Sun, solar wind, and Earth — as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.For more information visit science.nasa.gov/mission/punch || ", "hits": 108 }, { "id": 14776, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14776/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-30T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Integration and Testing", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 14771, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14771/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-24T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Instruments", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system. By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.Three of the PUNCH satellites will carry a Wide Field Imager (WFI), and the fourth will carry the Narrow Field Imager (NFI).The Narrow Field Imager (NFI)The Narrow Field Image (NFI) is a coronagraph, a type of device that blocks out the bright light from the Sun to better see details in the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. The coronagraph will have a similar field of view as the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) C3 field, from 6 to 32 solar radii on the sky, and it will view the corona in both polarized and unpolarized light.Wide Field Imager (WFI)The Wide Field Imager (WFI) is a heliospheric imager, a device that provides views from 18 to 180 solar radii (45 degrees) away from the Sun in the sky. Heliospheric imagers use an artificial “horizon” and deep baffles to view the very faint outermost portion of the solar corona and the solar wind itself. The instrument reduces direct sunlight by over 16 orders of magnitude, which is like the ratio between the mass of a human and the mass of a cold virus. The wide-field imaging optics are based on the design of the famous Nagler eyepieces, which are known among observational astronomers for their clarity, low distortion, wide field, and achromatic focus. Three of the PUNCH spacecraft will carry a WFI instrument. || ", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 14770, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14770/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-24T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Test Operations at Vandenberg Space Force Base", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 14768, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14768/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-23T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Solar Array Deployment Test", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 14767, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14767/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-23T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Arrival at Vandenberg Space Force Base", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 14765, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14765/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-23T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Assembly and Testing", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 67 }, { "id": 14494, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14494/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-01-08T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) Installation", "description": "On Saturday, Nov. 18, at 2 p.m. EST, installation of NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) was completed on the International Space Station.By remotely controlling the Canadarm2 robotic arm, engineers first extracted AWE from SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft a couple days after it arrived at the station on Nov. 11. Then, on Saturday, using the Canadarm2 robotic arm again, engineers completed AWE’s installation onto the EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 1, a platform designed to support external payloads mounted to the International Space Station.AWE is led by Ludger Scherliess at Utah State University in Logan, and it is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory built the AWE instrument and provides the mission operations center.To learn more visit science.nasa.gov/mission/awe || ", "hits": 82 }, { "id": 14290, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14290/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-02-17T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Heliosphere Has Ripples!", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX mission, has helped researchers learn something new about the heliosphere – the magnetic bubble created by the Sun that we live in. It turns out, the heliosphere has ripples! These ripples also change – likely due to influences from the Sun itself.The paper explaining the results was published in Nature Astronomy. || ", "hits": 106 }, { "id": 20363, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20363/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2022-03-09T18:00:00-05:00", "title": "Animation: Heliosphere", "description": "The sun sends out a constant flow of charged particles called the solar wind, which ultimately travels past all the planets to some three times the distance to Pluto before being impeded by the interstellar medium. This forms a giant bubble around the sun and its planets, known as the heliosphere. NASA studies the heliosphere to better understand the fundamental physics of the space surrounding us - which, in turn, provides information regarding space throughout the rest of the universe, as well as regarding what makes planets habitable.The solar wind is a gas of charged particles known as plasma, a state of matter governed by its own set physical laws just as the more common solids, liquids, and gases are. As the solar wind sweeps out into space, it creates a space environment filled with radiation as well as magnetic fields that trail all the way back to the sun. This space environment is augmented by interstellar cosmic rays and occasional concentrated clouds of solar material that burst off the sun, known as coronal mass ejections.This complex environment surrounds the planets and ultimately has a crucial effect on the formation, evolution, and destiny of planetary systems. For one thing, our heliosphere acts as a giant shield, protecting the planets from galactic cosmic radiation. Earth is additionally shielded by its own magnetic field, the magnetosphere, which protects us not only from solar and cosmic particle radiation but also from erosion of the atmosphere by the solar wind. Planets without a shielding magnetic field, such as Mars and Venus, are exposed to such processes and have evolved differently.NASA's studies of the heliosphere include research into: how the solar wind behaves near Earth; what causes and sustains magnetic and electric fields around other planets; how does the heliosphere interact with the interstellar medium; what do the boundaries of the heliosphere look like; what is the origin and evolution of the solar wind and the interstellar cosmic rays; and what contributes to the habitability of exoplanets.The field is, therefore, intensely cross-disciplinary. Heliospheric research often works hand in hand with planetary scientists, astrophysicists, astrobiologists, and space weather researchers.NASA heliophysics missions contributing to heliospheric research are: the Advanced Composition Explorer; NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory; Voyager, and Wind. || ", "hits": 448 }, { "id": 13642, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13642/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-06-11T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "11 Years Charting The Edge of The Solar System", "description": "Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music credits: “End of Days - Joe Mason Remix” by Connor Shambrook [BMI], Cyrus Reynolds [BMI], Flynn Hase Spence [ASCAP], Joseph Scott Mason [APRA]; “Brainstorming” by Laurent Dury [SACEM]; “Flight of the Leaf Remix” by Julie Gruss [GEMA], Laurent Dury [SAXEM]; “Ticks and Thoughts” by Laurent Dury [SACEM]; “Intimate Journey” by Laurent Vernerey [SACEM], Nicolas de Ferran [SACEM] from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. || 13642_IBEX11years_YouTube.00214_print.jpg (1024x576) [239.3 KB] || 13642_IBEX11years_YouTube.00214_searchweb.png (320x180) [98.0 KB] || 13642_IBEX11years_YouTube.00214_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || 13642_IBEX11years_Prores-2.mov (1920x1080) [4.2 GB] || 13642_IBEX11years_YouTube.mp4 (1920x1080) [489.0 MB] || 13642_IBEX11years_Facebook.mp4 (1920x1080) [366.4 MB] || 13642_IBEX11years_Twitter.mp4 (1920x1080) [66.4 MB] || 13642_IBEX11years_YouTube.webm (1920x1080) [33.9 MB] || IBEX11years.en_US.srt [5.8 KB] || IBEX11years.en_US.vtt [5.8 KB] || ", "hits": 77 }, { "id": 20299, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20299/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2019-12-04T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Science Result animations", "description": "On Dec. 4, 2019, four new papers in the journal Nature describe what scientists working with data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe have learned from this unprecedented exploration of our star — and what they look forward to learning next. These findings reveal new information about the behavior of the material and particles that speed away from the Sun, bringing scientists closer to answering fundamental questions about the physics of our star. These animations represent five of those findings. || ", "hits": 141 }, { "id": 13275, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13275/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-08-07T11:30:00-04:00", "title": "How NASA Will Protect Astronauts From Space Radiation", "description": "Today, the Apollo-era flares serve as a reminder of the threat of radiation exposure for technology and astronauts in space. Understanding and predicting solar eruptions is crucial for safe space exploration. Almost 50 years since those 1972 storms, the data, technology and resources available to NASA have improved, enabling advancements towards space weather forecasts and astronaut protection — key to NASA’s Artemis program to return astronauts to the Moon.", "hits": 686 }, { "id": 13155, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13155/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-03-27T15:30:00-04:00", "title": "Going Interstellar with TESS and Kepler", "description": "For the longest time, space seemed like just a big, nearly empty place. However, as we learned more about the universe around us, we discovered other planets orbiting our Sun, and even planets that orbit other stars trillions of miles away. In this video, discover how NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of planets outside of our solar system — also called exoplanets — with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Virtual Memory\" from Killer TracksYouTube linkComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || TESS_Voyager_final_full_version_still.jpg (1920x1080) [506.3 KB] || TESS_Voyager_final_full_version_still_print.jpg (1024x576) [223.7 KB] || TESS_Voyager_final_full_version_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [101.1 KB] || TESS_Voyager_final_full_version_still_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || TESS_Voyager_final_full_version_prores.mov (1920x1080) [2.2 GB] || TESS_Voyager_final_full_version_HQ.mp4 (1920x1080) [412.1 MB] || TESS_Voyager_final_full_version_LQ.mp4 (1920x1080) [211.8 MB] || TESS_Voyager_final_full_version_prores.webm (1920x1080) 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Beyond the corona is the solar wind, which is an outward expansion of coronal plasma that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto. This entire region of space influenced by the sun is called the heliosphere. Controlled by the Earth’s magnetic field, the magnetosphere acts as a shield protecting the planet from solar wind. The shape of the Earth's magnetosphere is the direct result of being impacted by solar wind, compressed on its sunward side and elongated on the night-side, the magnetotail. The shock wave where the solar wind encounters Earth's magnetosphere is called the bow shock, which slows and diverts the solar wind. Solar activity lead to solar eruptions, which includes such phenomena as sunspots, flares, prominences, and coronal mass ejections that influence space weather, or near-Earth environmental conditions. Modern society depends heavily on a variety of technologies that are susceptible to space weather. CMEs for example can cause geomagnetic storms that can disrupt satellite communications and navigational equipment, and even cause blackouts. || ", "hits": 302 }, { "id": 11382, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11382/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "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. || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 4087, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4087/", "result_type": "Visualization", "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. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 20200, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20200/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2013-07-10T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Heliotail", "description": "Animation showing Heliotail solar winds. || heliotail animation || Heliotail_0090000877_print.jpg (1024x576) [68.7 KB] || Heliotail_00900_web.png (320x180) [55.2 KB] || Heliotail_00900_thm.png (80x40) [5.5 KB] || heliotail.webmhd.webm (960x540) [3.5 MB] || Helio (3840x2160) [64.0 KB] || heliotail.mp4 (3840x2160) [16.2 MB] || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 11301, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11301/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-07-10T12:30:00-04:00", "title": "IBEX Provides First View Of the Solar System’s Tail", "description": "This page contains resources from the July 10, 2013 media briefing.To watch the media briefing on YouTube, click here.To view the web short on YouTube about this story, click here.NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, recently mapped the boundaries of the solar system’s tail, called the heliotail. By combining observations from the first three years of IBEX imagery, scientists have mapped out a tail that shows a combination of fast and slow moving particles. The entire structure twisted, because it experiences the pushing and pulling of magnetic fields outside the solar system. || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 11306, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11306/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-07-10T12:30:00-04:00", "title": "IBEX Maps Solar System's Tail", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, recently mapped the boundaries of the solar system’s tail, called the heliotail. By combining observations from the first three years of IBEX imagery, scientists have mapped out a tail that shows a combination of fast and slow moving particles. The entire structure twisted, because it experiences the pushing and pulling of magnetic fields outside the solar system.To view this video on YouTube, click here. || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 10908, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10908/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "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. || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 10905, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10905/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-01-31T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Interstellar Neutral Atoms", "description": "Animation of the interstellar interaction with our Sun-one of billions of stars that orbits around the galaxy. As we zoom in through the galaxy we can see our heliosphere; then if we travel along with the interstellar material, we can see how only a very rare few are directed along precisely the right path to make the 30 year, 15 billion mile journey and enter IBEX's low energy sensor and be detected.For press release media associated with this animation, go: here. || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 10906, "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. || ", "hits": 149 }, { "id": 10790, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10790/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-06-09T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Voyager Satellites Find Magnetic Bubbles at Edge of Solar System", "description": "The sun's magnetic field spins opposite directions on the north and south poles. These oppositely pointing magnetic fields are separated by a layer of current called the heliospheric current sheet. Due to the tilt of the magnetic axis in relation to the axis of rotation of the Sun, the heliospheric current sheet flaps like a flag in the wind. The flapping current sheet separates regions of oppositely pointing magnetic field, called sectors. As the solar wind speed decreases past the termination shock, the sectors squeeze together, bringing regions of opposite magnetic field closer to each other. The Voyager spacecraft have now found that when the separation of sectors becomes very small, the sectored magnetic field breaks up into a sea of nested \"magnetic bubbles\" in a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection. The region of nested bubbles is carried by the solar wind to the north and south filling out the entire front region of the heliopause and the sector region in the heliosheath.This discovery has prompted a complete revision of what the heliosheath region looks like. The smooth, streamlined look is gone, replaced with a bubbly, frothy outer layer. More animations about the Voyager magnetic bubbles discovery are available. || ", "hits": 161 }, { "id": 10791, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10791/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-06-09T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Voyager Heliosheath Bubbles Animations", "description": "Animations showing the new Voyager findings about the magnetic field in the heliosheath.For more videos and stills about the Voyager magnetic bubbles discovery, go here. || ", "hits": 104 }, { "id": 20185, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20185/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2010-10-01T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Heliopause Cycle", "description": "This animation shows the heliosphere expanding and contracting in response to the solar cycle. As the sun reaches solar maximum, the solar wind increases and expands the heliosphere. During solar minimum, the heliosphere contracts. || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 20186, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20186/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2010-10-01T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cosmic Rays and the Heliopause", "description": "This animation shows how variations in the size of the heliosphere affect how many cosmic rays reach Earth. As the heliosphere expands, it blocks more cosmic rays, and as it contracts, more cosmic rays get through and can affect astronauts and satellites. || ", "hits": 109 }, { "id": 10669, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10669/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-09-30T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Mission Shows Evolution of Conditions at Edge of Solar System", "description": "New data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft, reveal that conditions at the edge of our solar system may be much more dynamic than previously thought. Future exploration missions will benefit in design and mission objectives from a better understanding of the changing conditions in this outer region of our solar system.The IBEX has produced a new set of \"all-sky\" maps of our solar system's interaction with the galaxy, allowing researchers to continue viewing and studying the interaction between our galaxy and sun. The new maps reveal changing conditions in the region that separates the nearest reaches of our galaxy, called the local interstellar medium, from our heliosphere — a protective bubble that shields and protects our solar system.In October 2009, scientists announced that the first map data produced by IBEX revealed an unpredicted bright ribbon of energetic neutral atoms emanating toward the sun from the edge of the solar system. This discovery was unexpected to scientists, because the ribbon of bright emissions did not resemble any previous theoretical models of the region.The IBEX spacecraft creates sky maps by measuring and counting particles referred to as energetic neutral atoms that are created in an area of our solar system known as the interstellar boundary region. This imaging technique is required since this region emits no light that can be collected by conventional telescopes. This interstellar boundary is where charged particles from the sun, called the solar wind, flow outward far beyond the orbits of the planets and collide with material between stars. These collisions cause energetic neutral atoms to travel inward toward the sun from interstellar space at velocities ranging from 100,000 mph to more than 2.4 million mph.This second set of all-sky maps, created using data collected during six months of observations, show the evolution of the interstellar boundary region. The maps help delineate the interstellar boundary region, the area at the edge of our solar system that shields it from most of the dangerous galactic cosmic radiation that would otherwise enter from interstellar space. The new findings were published this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 10654, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10654/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-09-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Introduction to the Heliopause", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 184 }, { "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. || ", "hits": 73 }, { "id": 10471, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10471/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-09-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "SDO Engineers Create What Never Was", "description": "Scientists discover what there is, but engineers create that which never was. This special group of folks at Goddard Space Flight Center are creators, like any artist, but instead of working with art they are working wiht scientific, mechanical, or electrical things with fantastic problems to solve. Watch engineers talk about what it is like to be an engineer as they build, assemble, integrate, and test the Solary Dynamics Observatory (SDO) soon to be launched in early 2010. If you have a strong tendancy towards science and mathematics, and enjoy working and building things with your hands, then you could also come up with creative solutions, to create something, to do a certain job and do it well. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 3595, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3595/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-07-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sentinels of the Heliosphere", "description": "Heliophysics is a term to describe the study of the Sun, its atmosphere or the heliosphere, and the planets within it as a system. As a result, it encompasses the study of planetary atmospheres and their magnetic environment, or magnetospheres. These environments are important in the study of space weather.As a society dependent on technology, both in everyday life, and as part of our economic growth, space weather becomes increasingly important. Changes in space weather, either by solar events or geomagnetic events, can disrupt and even damage power grids and satellite communications. Space weather events can also generate x-rays and gamma-rays, as well as particle radiations, that can jeopardize the lives of astronauts living and working in space.This visualization tours the regions of near-Earth orbit; the Earth's magnetosphere, sometimes called geospace; the region between the Earth and the Sun; and finally out beyond Pluto, where Voyager 1 and 2 are exploring the boundary between the Sun and the rest of our Milky Way galaxy. Along the way, we see these regions patrolled by a fleet of satellites that make up NASA's Heliophysics Observatory Telescopes. Many of these spacecraft do not take images in the conventional sense but record fields, particle energies and fluxes in situ. Many of these missions are operated in conjunction with international partners, such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA).The Earth and distances are to scale. Larger objects are used to represent the satellites and other planets for clarity.Here are the spacecraft featured in this movie:Near-Earth Fleet:Hinode: Observes the Sun in multiple wavelengths up to x-rays. SVS pageRHESSI : Observes the Sun in x-rays and gamma-rays. SVS pageTRACE: Observes the Sun in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths. SVS pageTIMED: Studies the upper layers (40-110 miles up) of the Earth's atmosphere.FAST: Measures particles and fields in regions where aurora form.CINDI: Measures interactions of neutral and charged particles in the ionosphere. AIM: Images and measures noctilucent clouds. SVS pageGeospace Fleet:Geotail: Conducts measurements of electrons and ions in the Earth's magnetotail. Cluster: This is a group of four satellites which fly in formation to measure how particles and fields in the magnetosphere vary in space and time. SVS pageTHEMIS: This is a fleet of five satellites to study how magnetospheric instabilities produce substorms. SVS pageL1 Fleet: The L1 point is a Lagrange Point, a point between the Earth and the Sun where the gravitational pull is approximately equal. Spacecraft can orbit this location for continuous coverage of the Sun.SOHO: Studies the Sun with cameras and a multitude of other instruments. SVS pageACE: Measures the composition and characteristics of the solar wind. Wind: Measures particle flows and fields in the solar wind. Heliospheric FleetSTEREO-A and B: These two satellites observe the Sun, with imagers and particle detectors, off the Earth-Sun line, providing a 3-D view of solar activity. SVS pageHeliopause FleetVoyager 1 and 2: These spacecraft conducted the original 'Planetary Grand Tour' of the solar system in the 1970s and 1980s. They have now travelled further than any human-built spacecraft and are still returning measurements of the interplanetary medium. SVS pageThis enhanced, narrated visualization was shown at the SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival in New Orleans, LA in August 2009; an eariler version created for AGU was called NASA's Heliophysics Observatories Study the Sun and Geospace. || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 3495, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3495/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-07-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Heliophysics Great Observatory (Phase-1)", "description": "This visualization was an early piece of a larger, more complete visualization.To see the completed visualization please go HERE.This visualization shows many of the spacecraft in NASA's heliophysics great observatory fleet. The heliophysics fleet explores various aspects of the helipsphere including Earth's magnetosphere. To do this requires many spacecraft sampling data at many different places — close to the Earth, between the Earth and the Sun, and far away from the Earth.Phase-1 of this visualziation shows the orbits of spacecraft around the date when the Stereo spacecraft received lunar assists to get into solar orbit. This phase focuses on near-Earth orbiters and L1 orbiters. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 10411, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10411/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-03-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Top 5 Solar Discoveries", "description": "A countdown of the top 5 solar discoveries from the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. These include the discoveries of sunspots, the solar cycle, the heliosphere, aurora formation, and space weather. || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 3570, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3570/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-12-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Heliophysics Observatories Study the Sun and Geospace", "description": "Heliophysics is a term to describe the study of the Sun, its atmosphere or the heliosphere, and the planets within it as a system. As a result, it encompasses the study of planetary atmospheres and their magnetic environment, or magnetospheres. These environments are important in the study of space weather.As a society dependent on technology, both in everyday life, and as part of our economic growth, space weather becomes increasingly important. Changes in space weather, either by solar events or geomagnetic events, can disrupt and even damage power grids and satellite communications. Space weather events can also generate x-rays and gamma-rays, as well as particle radiations, that can jeopardize the lives of astronauts living and working in space.This visualization tours the regions of near-Earth orbit; the Earth's magnetosphere, sometimes called geospace; the region between the Earth and the Sun; and finally out beyond Pluto, where Voyager 1 and 2 are exploring the boundary between the Sun and the rest of our Milky Way galaxy. Along the way, we see these regions patrolled by a fleet of satellites that make up NASA's Heliophysics Observatory Telescopes. Many of these spacecraft do not take images in the conventional sense but record fields, particle energies and fluxes in situ. Many of these missions are operated in conjunction with international partners, such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA).The Earth and distances are to scale. Larger objects are used to represent the satellites and other planets for clarity.Here are the spacecraft featured in this movie:Near-Earth Fleet:Hinode: Observes the Sun in multiple wavelengths up to x-rays. SVS pageRHESSI : Observes the Sun in x-rays and gamma-rays. SVS pageTRACE: Observes the Sun in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths. SVS pageTIMED: Studies the upper layers (40-110 miles up) of the Earth's atmosphere.FAST: Measures particles and fields in regions where aurora form.CINDI: Measures interactions of neutral and charged particles in the ionosphere. AIM: Images and measures noctilucent clouds. SVS pageGeospace Fleet:Geotail: Conducts measurements of electrons and ions in the Earth's magnetotail. Cluster: This is a group of four satellites which fly in formation to measure how particles and fields in the magnetosphere vary in space and time. SVS pageTHEMIS: This is a fleet of five satellites to study how magnetospheric instabilities produce substorms. SVS pageL1 Fleet: The L1 point is a Lagrange Point between the Sun and the Earth. Spacecraft can orbit this location for continuous coverage of the Sun.SOHO: Studies the Sun with cameras and a multitude of other instruments. SVS pageACE: Measures the composition and characteristics of the solar wind. Wind: Measures particle flows and fields in the solar wind. Heliospheric FleetSTEREO-A and B: These two satellites observe the Sun, with imagers and particle detectors, off the Earth-Sun line, providing a 3-D view of solar activity. SVS pageHeliopause FleetVoyager 1 and 2: These spacecraft conducted the original 'Planetary Grand Tour' of the solar system in the 1970s and 1980s. They have now travelled further than any human-built spacecraft and are still returning measurements of the interplanetary medium. SVS pageA refined and narrated version of this visualization, Sentinels of the Heliosphere, is now available. || ", "hits": 94 }, { "id": 10332, "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. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 3514, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3514/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-10-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IBEX Orbit Visualization", "description": "The Interstellar Boundary EXplorer (IBEX) mission will observe the boundary between the heliosphere and the interstellar medium from a location near the Earth. The mission will measure the flux of hydrogen Energetic Neutral Atoms (ENAs) which can be directed towards the Sun by an interaction with the heliosheath. In this visualization, we see the orbit of the spacecraft orbit (green) in relation to the Earth, the orbit of the Moon (gray), and Sun. For more information, visit the IBEX Mission Project Page at Southwest Research Institute which is managing the mission. We also have additional video outlining the mission (link). || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 10260, "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. || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 20134, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20134/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2008-04-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Journey to the Heliopause II", "description": "This animation is an update HD version of #010149 that starts at the Sun and pulls back to reveal the Heliosphere. || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 20132, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20132/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2008-01-23T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Voyager 2 Proves Solar System is Squashed", "description": "As of August 30, 2007, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin Voyager 1 into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the stars. || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 20130, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20130/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2007-12-10T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Voyager 2", "description": "This animation shows Voyager 2 on its journey to the Heliopause. || Voyager 2 animation || VgerII060000602_print.jpg (1024x576) [60.8 KB] || VgerII0600_web.png (320x180) [264.4 KB] || VgerII0600_thm.png (80x40) [16.3 KB] || 1280x720_16x9_60p (1280x720) [64.0 KB] || 20130_Voyager_2_Heliopause.mov (1280x720) [326.2 MB] || VgerII_720p.m2v (1280x720) [29.5 MB] || VgerII_720p.webmhd.webm (960x540) [5.0 MB] || a010179_VgerII_720p.mp4 (640x360) [3.4 MB] || VgerII_512x288.m1v (512x288) [6.4 MB] || ", "hits": 136 }, { "id": 20107, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20107/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2007-08-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Journey to the Heliopause", "description": "This animation starts at our Sun and quickly zooms out through the solar system to reveal the Heliosphere and the Heliopause where Voyager I passed through in November 2003. || ", "hits": 134 }, { "id": 20108, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20108/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2007-08-08T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Milkyway Galaxy zoom", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 130 }, { "id": 3405, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3405/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-03-01T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "STEREO Panoramic View", "description": "The STEREO mission presents a new view of the space between the Earth and the Sun.This view from the STEREO-A satellite, demonstrates the broad range of sky coverage by the five cameras of the SECCHI instrument. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 3406, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3406/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-03-01T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "STEREO Coronal Mass Ejection: From the EUVI to HI-2", "description": "This movie collects imagery from SOHO and STEREO-A of a coronal mass ejection (CME) during January of 2007. The instruments in this view, from left to right, are STEREO/HI-1, STEREO/HI-2, SOHO/LASCO/C3, SOHO/LASCO/C2, and STEREO/EUVI. The Heliospheric Imager, HI-2, shows some of the tail of comet McNaught. The dark trapezoidal shape on the left edge of the image in HI-2 is the Earth occulter which will block out the disk of the Earth when it moves into view (since the planet will appear so bright as to saturate the detectors). Due to ongoing work with the STEREO coronagraphs, COR1 and COR2, the SOHO/LASCO coronagraphs are used for this movie. The blue Sun in the center of the coronagraphs is STEREO/EUVI ultraviolet images.There is a 22 hour gap in the data coverage for HI-2 which creates the appearance of a jump in the playback.These are not standard images but are called 'running difference' images which highlight changes in the view. White pixels correspond to increases in brightness, while dark pixels reflect a decrease in brightness, with respect to the immediately previous image.'Running differencing' generates some unusual effects. For example, the mottled background is created by the motion of the stars through the field-of-view as the spacecraft pointing direction slowly changes (the Andromeda galaxy is the oblong 'smudge' near the upper left corner). The planets Venus (right edge of HI-2) and Mercury are visible (near center of HI-1), their column of pixels saturated due to their brightness.STEREO: Solar TErrestrial RElations ObservatorySOHO: SOlar Heliospheric ObservatoryLASCO: Large Angle and Spectrometric CoronagraphEUVI: Extreme UltraViolet Imager || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 20035, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20035/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2004-12-03T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Coronal Mass Ejections Reach the Heliopause", "description": "Coronal mass ejections (CME) can propagate from the Sun to the boundary with interstellar space. || Movie of CME material reaching the heliopause. || Helio_pre.00002_print.jpg (1024x691) [67.5 KB] || Helio_pre.jpg (320x197) [7.2 KB] || Heliosphere_pre.jpg (320x238) [9.3 KB] || 1280x720_16x9_60p (1280x720) [0 Item(s)] || Helio.webmhd.webm (960x540) [4.2 MB] || HelioHD0200.mp4 (1280x720) [5.5 MB] || Helio.mpg (720x486) [3.2 MB] || Heliosphere.mpg (352x240) [3.2 MB] || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 2856, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2856/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-11-11T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Model of the Heliosphere Over the Solar Cycle", "description": "This magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model shows how the heliosphere of the Sun might interact with the local interstellar medium (ISM) over the course of a single 11 year solar cycle. The sun (and the orbit of the Earth) is located in the tiny blue region in the center. The ISM is moving from left to right. The solar wind varies from 400 km/s up to 566 km/s and back down to 400 km/s over the cycle in this particular model. The colors are logarithmically scaled to represent temperature, with blue around 10,000 Kelvins (in the undisturbed ISM and the region immediately around the Sun) and red over 1,000,000 Kelvins (corresponding to the bow shocked region in the plasma). The green region around the Sun has a radius that varies between 100-200 Astronomical Units. || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 8, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/8/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1993-12-17T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet: 6 Cases", "description": "The Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft have detected large-scale quasi-periodic plasma fluctuations in the outer heliosphere beyond 20 AU. A plasma vortex sheet model can explain these fluctuations and the observed correlations between various physical variables. The large scale outer heliosphere is modeled by solving the 3-D compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations involving three interacting shear layers.Computations were done on a Cray computer at the NASA Center for Computational Sciences.Six cases are animated: Weak magnetic field and strong magnetic field, each at three values of tau, the vortex street characteristic time. Contours of density are shown as dark transparent 'tubes'. Critical points of the velocity field are represented by 'Glyphs'. Vortex cores are shown in orange and blue. || ", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 9, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/9/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1993-12-17T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet - a Model of the Outer Heliospheric Wind", "description": "The Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft have detected large-scale quasi-periodic plasma fluctuations in the outer heliosphere beyond 20 AU. A plasma vortex sheet model can explain these fluctuations and the observed correlations between various physical variables. The large scale outer heliosphere is modeled by solving the 3-D compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations involving three interacting shear layers. Computations were done on a Cray computer at the NASA Center for Computational Sciences. Six cases are animated: Weak magnetic field and strong magnetic field, each at three values of tau, the vortex street characteristic time. Contours of densityare shown as dark transparent 'tubes'. Critical points of the velocity field are represented by 'Glyphs'. Vortex cores are shown in orange and blue. || ", "hits": 62 } ] }