The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will be used by scientists to study the bubblelike structure in which our solar system exists. Known as the heliosphere, it is formed by the ...
NASA's IMAP mission and two other spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday morning (Sept. 24) to study space weather and its effects on Earth.
Did you know our entire Solar System is cocooned inside a giant protective bubble, known as the heliosphere? Created by the perpetual outflow of charged particles from the Sun, called the solar wind, ...