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Members of the press can reach the IMAP Outreach and Communications Lead, Lindsay Bartolone, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 312-493-7651.

 

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Photo Story: Imperial Instrument Installed on a Solar-Wind-Studying Spacecraft
Oct. 1, 2024

By Hayley Dunning

Join our researchers as they install their instrument on NASA’s IMAP spacecraft, set to launch next year on a mission to study the A stream of charged particles, mostly protons and electrons, that escapes into the Sun's outer atmosphere at high speeds and streams out into the solar system in all directions..

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft will observe and map the Sun’s The bubble-like region surrounding the solar system inflated by the solar wind, shielding the solar system from interstellar radiation. – the volume of space filled with particles streaming out from…

American Astrophysicist David J. McComas Talks about the Secrets of the Sun and... Space Weather
July 8, 2024

This article is translated from the original article which appears in Greek.

Its scale is something the mind cannot grasp…

Eclipse 2024: Why Princeton Astrophysicists are Excited about This One
April 4, 2024

By Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications.

On Monday, April 8, the moon will pass between the Earth and the Sun for about four hours. For a few precious minutes, the Moon will completely block our view of our favorite star for people in the “path of totality.” Here in New Jersey, just outside that path, the…

New Instrument to Capture Stardust as Part of NASA Mission
Jan. 11, 2024

Scientists and engineers at the University of Colorado, Boulder will soon take part in an effort to collect a bit of stardust — the tiny bits of matter that flow through the The band of light that appears to encircle the sky, as viewed from Earth, caused by the light from many stars lying near the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy; also sometimes used to refer to the Galaxy in which the Sun belongs. A huge collection of millions to trillions of stars and their planetary systems held together by gravity, and the gas, plasma, and dust that are also gravitationally held to the galaxy. The galaxy our solar system is found in is called the Milky Way. and were once the initial building blocks of our solar system.

The pursuit is part of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)…

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe Passes Key Decision Point-D
Nov. 30, 2023

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has successfully completed Key Decision Point D (KDP-D). This milestone allows the mission to move from development and design to the assembly, testing, and integration phase. IMAP’s planned launch date, which was no earlier than February 2025, was also reevaluated during the KDP-D and was…

IMAP PI David J. McComas Will Receive the 2023 Arctowski Medal
Jan. 23, 2023

McComas has made seminal contributions through innovative mission and instrumentation development that have benefited and supported the entire scientific community and led ground-breaking…

Professor David J. McComas Awarded EGU's 2022 Hannes Alfvén Medal
Nov. 3, 2021

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) announced today that David McComas is a recipient of the 2022 Hannes Alfvén Medal for his Plasma consists of a gas heated to sufficiently high temperatures that the atoms ionize. The properties of the gas are controlled by electromagnetic forces among constituent ions and electrons, which results in different behavior than gas made primarily of neutral atoms like the Earth’s atmosphere. Plasma is often considered the fourth state of matter (besides solid, liquid, and gas). Most of the matter in the Universe is in the plasma state. physics research.

NASA, UK Space Agency Sign Agreement to Build Instrument to Study Interplanetary Space
Oct. 13, 2021

NASA and the UK Space Agency have agreed to cooperate on NASA’s The study of the Sun and its connection to the solar system, including the physical processes that occur in the space environment. mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The agreement, signed Sept. 22, 2021, will allow…

NASA, Poland Sign Agreement to Build Instrument to Study Interplanetary Space
Jan. 14, 2021

NASA and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland have agreed to cooperate on a NASA The study of the Sun and its connection to the solar system, including the physical processes that occur in the space environment. mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The…

NASA Adjusts IMAP Schedule to Accommodate COVID-19 Precautions
Dec. 11, 2020
 

To accommodate schedule changes due to precautions regarding COVID-19, the preliminary design review for NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, has been moved from…

NASA Selects Mission to Study Solar Wind Boundary of Outer Solar System
June 1, 2018

NASA has selected a science mission planned for launch in 2024 that will sample, analyze, and map particles streaming to Earth from the edges of interstellar space.

The Interstellar Mapping and…