Mapping the Boundaries of Our Home in Space | NASA’s IMAP Mission
NASA’s new Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere—a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our solar system—and study how that boundary interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.
As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will chart the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate two of the most important overarching issues in heliophysics—the energization of charged particles from the Sun, and the interaction of the solar wind with interstellar space. Additionally, IMAP will support near real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles. These can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth.
IMAP is launching no earlier than Sept. 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/
https://imap.princeton.edu/
Duration: 5 minutes, 38 seconds
Release Date: Sept. 17, 2025
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