About IBEX

• What is IBEX?
• Why is the IBEX mission important?
• How does IBEX study the boundary of the Solar System?
• How does IBEX collect data?
• How does IBEX create a map of the Solar System boundary?
• How did IBEX get into space?
• Where does IBEX orbit?
• How does IBEX communicate data?
• From where does IBEX get its power?
• How did the IBEX team work together to ensure a successful mission?
• What is the timeline for the IBEX mission?
• What is IBEX's future?

About IBEX's Results

• What do the first maps from IBEX show?
• Why are IBEX's results exciting?
• How does IBEX's data add to what we previously knew?

About the Boundary of the Solar System

• What defines the boundary of the Solar System?
• What is the interstellar medium?
• What happens when the solar wind and the interstellar medium collide?
• What is the bow shock or bow wave?
• What is the heliopause?
• What is the termination shock?
• What is outside the boundary of the Solar System?
• How does the Solar System boundary affect me?
• What are cosmic rays?
• How do cosmic rays affect DNA?
• What are energetic neutral atoms?

About the Sun

• What is the Sun made of?
• What is plasma?
• What is the solar wind?
• What is a magnetic field?
• How does the solar wind move?
• How does the Sun's magnetic field work?

Other Questions

• What came before IBEX?