IRIS - Black Background
December 11, 2012
An artist rendition of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), a NASA Small Explorer Mission to observe how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the sun's lower atmosphere. Credit: NASA/LMSAL
Topics:
Environment, Technology Internet, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Space, Explorer program, Sun, Small Explorer program, light sources, Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, Space plasmas, Plasma physics, Astronomy, Space science
