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Publication: NASA.gov
Publication Date: 07/30/2013
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These two images show a section of the sun as seen by NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, on the right and NASA’s SDO on the left.
Image Credit: NASA/SDO/IRIS
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On July 17, 2013, as NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) orbited around Earth, the door of its telescope opened to view the lowest layers of the sun’s atmosphere. As expected, the data gathered by the satellite shows unprecedented detail of this region of the sun.
IRIS, a NASA Small Explorer mission that launched on June 27, 2013, showed a mass of thin, fibril-like structures, revealing vast contrasts in density and temperature occurring throughout this region even between neighboring loops that are only a few hundred miles apart. The images also reveal spots that rapidly brighten and dim, providing clues to how energy is transported and absorbed throughout the region.
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