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.”
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