IRIS

Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph

Active Mission

IRIS observes how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the Sun's lower atmosphere.

Type

Orbiter

Launch

June 28, 2013

Target

Sun-Earth Interaction

Objective

Observe solar material

IRIS Mission Status

Some data from NASA’s IRIS mission is temporarily unavailable because of flooding in the building that houses the mission's data center at Stanford University. The spacecraft remains healthy and is otherwise operating normally.  

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