Fig. 1

Illustration of the space weather phenomena that IMAP will observes from the Sun-Earth L1 vantage point and continuously measure through the I-ALiRT near real-time space weather capability. During scheduled contacts with NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), IMAP downlinks the full data stream that includes I-ALiRT space weather. In between DSN contacts, the I-ALiRT data is continuously broadcasted to a network of NASA partner ground stations around the world. Background image from the Center for Geospace Storms at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory