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The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a small explorer mission with the sole, focused science objective to discover the global interaction between the solar wind and the interstellar medium. IBEX is designed to achieve this objective by answering four fundamental science questions:

What is the global strength and structure of the termination shock?

How are energetic protons accelerated at the termination shock?

What are the global properties of the solar wind flow beyond the termination shock and in the heliotail?, and

How does the interstellar flow interact with the heliosphere beyond the heliopause?

The answers to these questions rely on IBEX's energy resolved images of energetic neutral atoms (ENAs), which originate beyond the termination shock, in the inner heliosheath.

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