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KSC-2013-1606

NASA / KSC · 2013-02-07 · photograph (digital archive)

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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians prepare the Orbital Sciences Corp. Pegasus XL rocket which will launch the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, spacecraft. IRIS will open a new window of discovery by tracing the flow of energy and plasma through the chromospheres and transition region into the sun’s corona using spectrometry and imaging.

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Credit lineKSC-2013-1606. NASA/KSC, 2013-02-07. Public domain. ID: 2013-1606.

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