IRIS Components
December 11, 2012
An artist rendition of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), with major components labeled. IRIS is 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, Explorer program, Space, Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, light sources, Small Explorer program, Iris, Space science, Sun, Space plasmas, Plasma physics, Astronomy
