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IBEX spacecraft set to map the final frontier

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Probe will catch atoms from the edge of our Solar System's protective bubble.

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Yeager, A. IBEX spacecraft set to map the final frontier. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.1177

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