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ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News


Sounding rocket to study active regions on the sun

Posted: 02 Aug 2013 06:51 AM PDT

At NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., a sounding rocket is being readied for flight. Due to launch on Aug. 8, 2013, the VERIS rocket, short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, will launch for a 15-minute trip carrying an instrument that can measure properties of the structures in the sun's upper atmosphere down to 145 miles across, some eight times clearer than any similar telescope currently in space.

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