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    NASA’s IMAP Mission Captures ‘First Light,’ Looks Back at Earth

    An animated GIF shows a large oval that is initially filled with large rectangular pixels of different colors from dark blue, light blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and pink. The pixels change color rapidly. The oval then goes from filled to only having two large vertical bands of colored pixels and then two thinner vertical bands of pixels, with the rest of the oval becoming gray, with no data. At the center of the oval a white dot is labeled "Nose." An orange, circular outline extends from the top of the oval below the Nose. A second orange curve stretches across the oval, starting at the upper left, curving down toward the bottom center of the oval, and then bends back up to the upper right edge of the oval.

    All 10 instruments aboard NASA’s newly launched IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) mission have successfully recorded their first measurements in space. With these “first light” observations, the spacecraft is now collecting preliminary science data as it journeys to its observational post at Lagrange point 1 (L1), about 1 million miles from Earth toward the […]

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