Credit: Collage by Elle Starkman
Dave McComas with illustrations of some of the projects he has led or helped lead: Clockwise from top left: An image of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft with an image depicting how the magnetic field shapes the heliosphere (SwRI); top right: bottom right: an illustration of IMAP observing signals from the interaction of the solar wind with the wind of other stars (NASA); bottom right: an artist’s conception of the solar system, including views of Voyagers 1 and 2 (NASA/Feimer); bottom left: the Parker Solar Probe (NASA).