Thursday, June 27, 2013

Washington: NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere is Energized

NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Wednesday at 7:27 PM PDT (10:27 PM EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere was placed in orbit by an Orbital Sciences Corporation Pegasus XL rocket. “We are thrilled to add…

Source: Washington: NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun’s Atmosphere is Energized



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