The University of Colorado Boulder will soon begin testing an instrument that will fly on a NASA mission in 2025 to collect data on interstellar dust particles.
Scott Tucker, project manager for the IDEX instrument, said the general goal of the IMAP mission is to explore “our solar neighborhood.” The role of IDEX is to collect data of interstellar dust particles, which can help scientists learn more about the solar system.
IMAP is a mission to study the sun’s heliosphere and will launch to a point just over 1% of the distance between the Earth and the sun more than 900,000 miles away. The test is meant to calibrate the instrument and make sure all expected results are there, John Fontanese, a researcher at LASP and IMPACT, said.
“So when we shoot a dust particle on IDEX, we can say exactly what material, velocity, and mass it is,” Fontanese said. “Then IDEX can report what parameters of the impactor they recorded, including elemental composition, and we can compare those values.”
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