NASA IRIS: Improving Our View Of the Sun

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NASA IRIS: Improving Our View Of the Sun

In late June 2013, NASA will launch a new set of eyes to offer the most detailed look ever of the sun’s lower atmosphere, called the interface region. This region is believed to play a crucial role in powering the sun’s dynamic million-degree atmosphere, the corona. The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph or IRIS mission will provide the best resolution so far of the widest range of temperatures for of the interface region, an area that has historically been difficult to study.

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IRIS versus Hinode - Improved Resolution

These movies use data from JAXA’s Hinode mission to provide an example of IRIS’ improved resolution over previous observations.

Credit: JAXA/Hinode/De Pontieu

Source: NASA - Multimedia

Edited May 30, 2013 by Waspie_Dwarf