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A Comprehensive Literature Review of the NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) Mission
Objectives, Instrumentation, and Contributions to Heliophysics The heliosphere, the colossal magnetic bubble created by the Sun’s constant solar wind, acts as our solar system’s first and most critical line of defense, deflecting the majority of harmful galactic cosmic radiation. Despite decades of exploration, from the pioneering, single-point measurements of the Voyager missions to the groundbreaking…