NASA and SpaceX Launch Missions to Study and Protect Against Solar Storms
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A new NASA mission, IMAP, aims to better understand the heliosphere, the protective bubble created by solar wind around our solar system, by mapping its boundaries and studying its interaction with interstellar space, which could improve space weather predictions and our understanding of cosmic radiation shielding.
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