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IBEX Spacecraft Will Map the Final Frontier Sunday, October 19, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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A NASA mission to study our Solar System's final frontier is due to launch this weekend. The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) will catch energetic particles streaming from the termination shock - the zone where the solar wind that blows from the Sun suddenly slows down as it slams into the thin, cold gas of interstellar space. (source: nasa.gov)
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