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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/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. || ",
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            "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. || ",
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            "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. || ",
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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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            "id": 3770,
            "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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