Photos NASA: IBEX recently completed a six-month survey of the sky.
Mankind is preparing to journey to the outer solar system in the decades ahead and part of the preparation is using NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft to take a look at conditions on the edge of the solar system to get an idea of the environment humans and the spacecraft we send to the edge of the solar system will have to withstand to survive. NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer has just finished pro...
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