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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": 61 }, { "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": 66 }, { "id": 13282, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13282/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-04T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "5 New Discoveries from NASA's Parker Solar Probe", "description": "Music Credit: Smooth as Glass by The Freeharmonic OrchestraWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || parkerscience.thumb.jpg (1920x1080) [731.2 KB] || parkerscience.thumb_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || parkerscience.thumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.7 KB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience_Twitter1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [53.4 MB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience.YouTube1080.webm (1920x1080) [26.9 MB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience.mp4 (1920x1080) [246.1 MB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience_Mobile1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [194.5 MB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience.YouTube1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [387.1 MB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience_Twitter1080.en_US.srt [4.5 KB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience_Twitter1080.en_US.vtt [4.5 KB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScienceMASTER.APR1080.mov (1920x1080) [3.2 GB] || ", "hits": 116 }, { "id": 13491, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13491/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Science Live: New Discoveries from Our Mission to Touch the Sun (Episode 12)", "description": "NASA Science Live: New Discoveries from Our Mission to Touch the Sun (Episode 12) || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [85.1 KB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [82.0 KB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [1.1 GB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12_youtube_720.mp4 (1280x720) [6.4 GB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12.mov (1280x720) [42.2 GB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12_youtube_720.webm (1280x720) [453.7 MB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12.en_US.srt [113.5 KB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12.en_US.vtt [106.5 KB] || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 20297, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20297/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2019-09-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Magnetospheres of our Solar System", "description": "A magnetosphere is the magnetic field shields a planet against the Sun's dangerous radiation. Not all magnetospheres are alike. This animation depicts the unique magnetospheres around Earth, Mars, and Jupiter. To demonstrate their strength, each planet's magnetosphere receives a direct hit from a coronal mass ejection (CME) - a cloud of dense radiation and magnetic field from the Sun. The impact of the CME on the planet depends on the strength of the magnetosphere. On Mars, the magnetosphere is weak and patchy, resulting in some loss of the planet's atmosphere. At Earth, the magnetosphere acts as a buffer, deforming from the impact, but protecting the planet. For Jupiter, the punch of the CME is barely felt by the massive magnetic field. || ", "hits": 325 }, { "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": 319 }, { "id": 12903, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12903/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-25T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Discovering the Sun’s Mysteriously Hot Atmosphere", "description": "Something mysterious is going on at the Sun. In defiance of all logic, its atmosphere gets much, much hotter the farther it stretches from the Sun’s blazing surface.Temperatures in the corona — the tenuous, outermost layer of the solar atmosphere — spike upwards of 2 million degrees Fahrenheit, while just 1,000 miles below, the underlying surface simmers at a balmy 10,000 F. How the Sun manages this feat remains one of the greatest unanswered questions in astrophysics; scientists call it the coronal heating problem. A new, landmark mission, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe — scheduled to launch no earlier than Aug. 11, 2018 — will fly through the corona itself, seeking clues to its behavior and offering the chance for scientists to solve this mystery.From Earth, as we see it in visible light, the Sun’s appearance — quiet, unchanging — belies the life and drama of our nearest star. Its turbulent surface is rocked by eruptions and intense bursts of radiation, which hurl solar material at incredible speeds to every corner of the solar system. This solar activity can trigger space weather events that have the potential to disrupt radio communications, harm satellites and astronauts, and at their most severe, interfere with power grids.Above the surface, the corona extends for millions of miles and roils with plasma, gases superheated so much that they separate into an electric flow of ions and free electrons. Eventually, it continues outward as the solar wind, a supersonic stream of plasma permeating the entire solar system. And so, it is that humans live well within the extended atmosphere of our Sun. To fully understand the corona and all its secrets is to understand not only the star that powers life on Earth, but also, the very space around us.Read more on NASA.gov. || ", "hits": 350 }, { "id": 12717, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12717/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-10-02T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Touching the Sun", "description": "Parker Solar Probe will observe the sun from a closer vantage point than ever before. || ObservingSunPoster_16x9_1024x576.jpg (1024x576) [444.2 KB] || ObservingSunPoster_16x9.jpg (2850x1603) [2.4 MB] || ObservingSunPoster_16x9_searchweb.png (320x180) [88.1 KB] || ObservingSunPoster_16x9_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 12639, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12639/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-09-05T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Where is the Edge of the Solar System?", "description": "Complete transcript available.Music credit: Dream Girl 3 by Yuri Sazonoff || EdgeofSolarSystem_ThumbnailOption2_print.jpg (1024x576) [252.4 KB] || EdgeofSolarSystem_ThumbnailOption2.png (3840x2160) [14.7 MB] || EdgeofSolarSystem_ThumbnailOption2_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || EdgeofSolarSystem_ThumbnailOption2_searchweb.png (320x180) [115.1 KB] || 12639_EdgeofSolarSystem_Final_24fps_v02_VX-718267_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [28.8 MB] || 12639_EdgeofSolarSystem_Final_24fps_v02_VX-718267_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [28.8 MB] || YOUTUBE_1080_12639_EdgeofSolarSystem_Final_24fps_v02_VX-718267_youtube_1080.webm (1920x1080) [7.2 MB] || TWITTER_720_12639_EdgeofSolarSystem_Final_24fps_v02_VX-718267_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [12.3 MB] || YOUTUBE_1080_12639_EdgeofSolarSystem_Final_24fps_v02_VX-718267_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [95.1 MB] || FACEBOOK_720_12639_EdgeofSolarSystem_Final_24fps_v02_VX-718267_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [70.5 MB] || YOUTUBE_720_12639_EdgeofSolarSystem_Final_24fps_v02_VX-718267_youtube_720.mp4 (1280x720) [96.0 MB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_12639_EdgeofSolarSystem_Final_24fps_v02_VX-718267_prores.mov (1280x720) [403.5 MB] || 12639_Edge_of_the_Solar_System.en_US.srt [810 bytes] || 12639_Edge_of_the_Solar_System.en_US.vtt [823 bytes] || YOUTUBE_4K_12639_EdgeofSolarSystem_Final_24fps_v02_VX-718267_youtube_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [246.9 MB] || 12639_EdgeofSolarSystem_Final_24fps_v02_VX-718267_lowres.mp4 (480x272) [9.5 MB] || 12639_EdgeofSolarSystem_Final_24fps_v02_VX-718267_youtube_hq.mov (3840x2160) [1.8 GB] || 12639_EdgeofSolarSystem_Final_24fps_v02.mov (3840x2160) [3.0 GB] || 12639_EdgeofSolarSystem_Final_2997fps_v02.mov (3840x2160) [3.7 GB] || ", "hits": 587 }, { "id": 11321, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11321/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-08-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Downstream Colors", "description": "Our sun, like the planets that circle it, is moving through space. About every 230 million years it completes one orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The entire solar system comes along for the ride, of course, residing within a massive, magnetic bubble called the heliosphere. Like a brightly lit comet, it was assumed the heliosphere has a leading head and a trailing tail region where streams of charged particles released from the sun meet interstellar space. But the tail section has never been observed, until now. NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has mapped the boundaries of the tail for the first time. By combining observations from the first three years of IBEX imagery, scientists found that the tail is made of fast- and slow-moving particles that are twisted by the pushing and pulling of magnetic fields outside the solar system. Watch the video to learn more. || ", "hits": 84 }, { "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": 43 }, { "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": 114 }, { "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": 82 }, { "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": 68 }, { "id": 10917, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10917/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-02-28T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "\"Alien\" Material", "description": "No man-made object has yet to slip the bounds of our solar system and enter interstellar space. But we can measure some of the atoms that make their way into the solar system from the outside. Crossing this boundary, they travel 7.5 billion miles over 30 years until some of them hit the detector on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite. In 2009 and 2010, IBEX detected neon and oxygen atoms, and in doing so gave scientists the most complete glimpse yet of interstellar material. The results? It's an alien environment out there. The interstellar material has less oxygen in any given slice than anywhere in our solar system. This suggests that the solar system evolved in a separate, more oxygen-rich part of the galaxy or that critical, life-giving oxygen lies trapped in interstellar dust grains or ices. Either way, this affects our understanding of how the solar system, and life, formed. Watch in the videos below to see how IBEX detected this \"alien\" material. || ", "hits": 138 }, { "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": 62 }, { "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": 214 }, { "id": 3635, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3635/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-15T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "IBEX First Skymap Release", "description": "The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission science team has used data from NASA's IBEX spacecraft to construct the first-ever all-sky map of the interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, where the sun's influence diminishes and interacts with the interstellar medium. The interstellar boundary region shields our solar system from most of the dangerous galactic cosmic radiation that would otherwise enter from interstellar space.This visualization illustrates the IBEX satellite in Earth orbit (the orbit reaching almost as far as the orbit of the Moon) and pulls out to beyond the heliopause boundary (the true 3-D nature of the boundary is reduced to a 2-D spherical surface). The sphere with the skymap opens to reproject the data into a near-Aitoff type map projection.The skymap shows the measured flux of energetic neutral atoms (ENAs). || ", "hits": 42 }, { "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": 155 }, { "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": 103 }, { "id": 20131, "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. || ", "hits": 87 }, { "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": 87 } ] }