LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Los Alamos National Laboratory is helping NASA scientists learn more about our place in the galaxy. The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida this week. The launch has three missions to track space weather.

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IMAP will study the heliosphere, which is the protective bubble surrounding the sun and planets, inflated by particles from the sun called sol

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