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KSC-2013-2620

NASA / KSC · 2013-06-10 · photograph (digital archive)

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VANDENBERG AFB – Detail of the Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket that will lift NASA's IRIS solar observatory into orbit in June. The work is taking place in a hangar at Vandenberg Air Force Base where IRIS, short for Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, is being prepared for launch from Vandenberg June 26. 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-2013-2620. NASA/KSC, 2013-06-10. Public domain. ID: KSC-2013-2620.

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