NASA to launch probe to map solar system's edge (AP)

TimeOctober 17, 2008 - 8:29pm
LinkNASA to launch probe to map solar system's edge
(AP)
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AP - A small NASA spacecraft embarks on a two-year mission this weekend 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.


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