News tagged with energetic neutral atoms
Galactic magnetic fields may control the boundaries of our solar system
Oct 16, 2009 |
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The first all-sky maps developed by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, the initial mission to examine the global interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, suggest that the galac ...
IBEX collecting science data, building first all-sky map of the edge of the solar system
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Jan 14, 2009 |
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Following two months of commissioning, during which the spacecraft and sensors were tuned for optimum mission performance, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft began gathering data to build the first maps ...
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First images of solar system's invisible frontier
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 02, 2008 |
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NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized ...
Cassini Data Help Redraw Shape of Solar System (w/ Video)
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Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Images from the Ion and Neutral Camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere, the region of the sun's influence, may not have the comet-like shape predicted by existing ...
Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System
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Nov 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system.
IBEX spacecraft detects fast neutral hydrogen coming from the moon
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Jun 18, 2009 |
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NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence.
Scientists Explore Galactic Frontier, Release First-Ever All-Sky Map (w/ Video)
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Oct 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky ...
Cross-Dressing Rubidium May Reveal Clues for Exotic Computing
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Neutral atoms--having no net electric charge--usually don't act very dramatically around a magnetic field. But by “dressing them up” with light, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaborative ...
Imager aboard IBEX space mission to capture evidence of far-distant particle collisions
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Oct 17, 2008 |
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A new NASA mission, IBEX, launches this weekend, geared to probe the very edge of the solar system from a high Earth orbit. One of its two instruments is a compact Los Alamos device called the High Energy ...
'Broken Heart' Image the Last for NASA's Long-Lived Polar Mission
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Apr 29, 2008 |
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As far as endings go, this one’s a real heart breaker. NASA’s Polar satellite concludes its successful mission at the end of April with a breathtaking visible-light image of the colorful dancing lights of ...
Solar flare surprise
Dec 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system. Packing a punch equal to a hundred million hydrogen bombs, they obliterate everything in their immediate vicinity. Not a ...
'Impressionist' Spacecraft to View Solar System's Invisible Frontier
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At the edge of our solar system in December 2004, the Voyager 1 spacecraft encountered something never before experienced during its then 26-year cruise through the solar system — an invisible ...
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