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The NASA IBEX probe also known as the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, is a NASA satellite that will manufacture the first map of the boundary amid the Solar System.buy a telescope The operation is part of NASA’s Small Explorer program and the probe was launched on a Pegasus-XL rocket on October 19, 2008. The primary mission will last for approximately 2 years in which it will endeavour to map the complete solar system boundary. The spacecraft will centre its concentration on the ‘interstellar boundary’, the brink of our solar system where the hot solar wind sweeps into the cold expanse of space. The active neutral atom (ENA) generated images IBEX will capture.

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 28th, 2009 at 3:55 pm and is filed under Technology.