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May 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agusmsh22b..04l&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, abstract #SH22B-04
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2124 Heliopause And Solar Wind Termination, 2144 Interstellar Gas, 2151 Neutral Particles
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The Interstellar Pathfinder (ISP) will explore the interstellar space surrounding our solar system and investigate its dynamic interaction with the heliosphere. A steady wind of interstellar atoms penetrates to within several AU of the Sun where ISP's instruments will analyze the composition of this unique sample of matter in detail. ISP will take global images of the distant boundary of the heliosphere, the termination shock of the solar wind. ISP will probe the consequences of and thus the conditions in the region beyond the termination, where the heliosphere merges with the interstellar medium. The instruments on ISP can also reveal the properties of the other sources of pickup ions in the solar wind, and may be able to make detailed observations of the composition of comets. ISP is a mission to the inner edge of the interstellar medium and is an indispensable precursor to robotic mission to measure interstellar space directly.
Bochsler Peter
Fisk Len
Funsten Herb
Geiss Johannes
Gloeckler George
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