NASA to study protective bubble

[Debi]

NASA Will Launch a Probe to Study the Solar System's Protective Bubble in 2024

An artist's illustration of NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, a mission to study the interaction of the sun's solar wind with the winds of other stars. It will launch in 2024.
Credit: NASA
NASA will launch a new mission in 2024 to help scientists better understand the bubble that surrounds the solar system, agency officials said.

This huge bubble, which known as the heliosphere, is created by the sun; it consists of charged solar particles and solar magnetic fields. The heliosphere helps protect Earth and other solar system bodies from space radiation, blocking some highly energetic cosmic rays that originated in interstellar space.

But the heliosphere boundary is far from impenetrable. The new NASA mission, called the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), will collect and study fast-moving particles that manage to make it through.

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[Debi]

We have a protective bubble around the Earth. Some would say we are not meant to pass that bubble. What are your thoughts on that? Is it a boundary made for us or just a coincidence of the sun doing it's thing?

 

[Lynne]

We have a protective bubble around the Earth. Some would say we are not meant to pass that bubble. What are your thoughts on that? Is it a boundary made for us or just a coincidence of the sun doing it's thing?

I think the word bubble suggests breaking it would not be in our best interests. These scientists are really gonna kill us. Let’s work on protecting the public from the almost certain EMP hit that will cause total social ruin.