Probe to Be Launched Today to Study Solar System's Edge
Sunday Gazette-Mail › October 20, 2008
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LOS ANGELES - A small NASA spacecraft embarks on a two-year mission today to give scientists their first view of the happenings at the edge of the solar system.
The Ibex probe, short for Interstellar Boundary Explorer, will study a chaotic region in space where the solar wind from the sun clashes with cold gases from interstellar space.See the full content of this document
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Probe to Be Launched Today to Study Solar System's Edge
The solar wind, a stream of charged particles spewing from the sun at 1 milli...
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