TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the boundaries of our heliosphere
T2 - International Conference on Future Perspectives of Space Plasma and Particle Instrumentation and International Collaborations
AU - McComas, D. J.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper briefly highlights two exciting new space missions - the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Solar Probe. Between these two, mankind will be able to understand the critical physical processes at the outermost and innermost boundaries of our heliosphere for the first time. IBEX will launch in the summer of 2008 to make energy-resolved images of energetic neutral atoms emanating from the inner heliosheath, beyond the termination shock, and enable detailed analysis of the global interaction of the heliosphere with the local interstellar medium. At the inner boundary, Solar Probe has been proposed to fly within 3 solar radii of the Sun's surface, to provide the first in situ, observations down in the solar corona. While very different missions, IBEX and Solar Probe each enable revolutionary scientific discovery at one of the two remaining unexplored boundaries of our heliosphere.
AB - This paper briefly highlights two exciting new space missions - the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Solar Probe. Between these two, mankind will be able to understand the critical physical processes at the outermost and innermost boundaries of our heliosphere for the first time. IBEX will launch in the summer of 2008 to make energy-resolved images of energetic neutral atoms emanating from the inner heliosheath, beyond the termination shock, and enable detailed analysis of the global interaction of the heliosphere with the local interstellar medium. At the inner boundary, Solar Probe has been proposed to fly within 3 solar radii of the Sun's surface, to provide the first in situ, observations down in the solar corona. While very different missions, IBEX and Solar Probe each enable revolutionary scientific discovery at one of the two remaining unexplored boundaries of our heliosphere.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.3169296
DO - 10.1063/1.3169296
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70450277582
SN - 9780735406810
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
SP - 223
EP - 227
BT - Future Perspectives of Space Plasma and Particle Instrumentation and International Collaborations - Proceedings of the International Conference
Y2 - 1 November 2006 through 3 November 2006
ER -