📣 LAUNCH ALERT! 📣 On Sept. 23, three new heliophysics missions are taking to the skies! IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) will map our heliosphere, the vast bubble that surrounds our solar system, to help us understand how our Sun creates and influences the vast space environment we live inside. 🚀🫧 The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will image the "halo" emitted by the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere, the exosphere. Named for Dr. George Carruthers — who invented the