This page will serve as a resource to Museums, planetaria, and other informal education settings. Not only will information on the IBEX mission and its background science be presented, but also materials and activities appropriate for use on the museum floor. These activities will be geared toward casual museum-goers, to inspire interest in the IBEX mission. Also included on this page will be information on the Adler-created Star Rider show focusing on the IBEX mission. Activities and demonstrations to supplement the show will be highlighted on this page, as well.

The new digital dome show, IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System will be available following IBEX launch.

Where does the Solar System end?  Join two teenagers in a multimedia journey to discover the boundaries of the Solar System and NASA’s mission to map it for the first time.  Fly through the Universe, visit the surface of the Sun, explore how the Sun protects us from dangerous particles and meet the team who designed and built the Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, which will change how we view our place in the Universe.

Click to view the trailer. For more information concerning release date and obtaining the show, email ibexepo@swri.edu.

Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum with NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) have created a short planetarium show segment as part of Adler's current TimeSpace show.

In this futuristic TimeSpace module, viewers are transported to the IBEX-Voyager, a captured comet used as an outpost at edge of the solar system. As NASA spaceships prepare to cross the interstellar boundary, the crew takes time to recognize the IBEX mission which, from Earth orbit, mapped the boundary of the solar system for the first time. The IBEX module for TimeSpace will be available for all digital domes through Evans & Sutherland in March 2007.