IBEX mission yields intriguing studies about solar system, lively debate among researchers
Monday, August 16, 2010 - 10:42
in Astronomy & Space
Since its October 2008 launch, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has mapped the invisible interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, surpassing its mission objectives with images that reveal the interactions between our home in the galaxy and interstellar space to be surprisingly structured and intense.