Designer Edge Image of the Day – 6-6-12 – NASA’s IRIS Mission

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Set to launch on June 26th, NASAs IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) is a mission aimed at investigating the conditions of the suns chromosphere. Understanding the chromosphere is key to having a better idea of how the Sun interacts with the Earth.

According to NASA “IRIS’s capabilities are uniquely tailored to unravel the interface region by providing both high-resolution images and a kind of data known as spectra. For its high-resolution images, IRIS will capture data on about 1 percent of the sun at a time. While these are relatively small snapshots, IRIS will be able to see very fine features, as small as 150 miles across.”

Watch A Video Explaining the IRIS Mission:

Image Courtesy of NASA