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STEREO craft examine solar system's invisible frontier
URL: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0807/02stereo/
Submitted: Thu Jul 03 2008
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NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized particles in the region where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium.