NASA has developed a shields telescope probe, which is designed to study the Heliosphere (region of the near-free space, which provides protection for all solar system objects) and detecting particles entering the solar system from interstellar space. It is noted that the first flight of a similar subborital rocket with a telescope on board will be carried out from the White-Sands missile landfill in New Mexico on April 19, “Izvestia” reports.
The purpose of the Shields mission is the study of interstellar particles, which, in turn, hit the solar system. Scientists want to obtain important data on these particles that will learn about the nearest boundaries of the interstellar space.
“This is a really the furthest border that we can explore. We still know very little about what is behind this border. Fortunately, we can help in this particles of the interstellar substance, which, passing through this border, fall In the solar system, “the NASA leads the words of the chief researcher of the Shields Mission, Space Physics from the University of Walt Harris.
At the same time, it is specified that the probe telescope is placed on board the rocket, which is already a few minutes after the launch will reach a height of about 300 km. The device then focuses on the “nasal” part of the heliosphere in order to catch the light from the arriving atoms of hydrogen.
According to scientists, such a study of particles will allow you to find out how in fact the current section of the interstellar space is. These data will also be useful for the future