We’re sharing a few of our favorite IRIS images & science results from the past half decade! In Sept. 2017, IRIS saw coronal structures associated with an intense solar flare. https://go.nasa.gov/2gQwAaf pic.twitter.com/KsVnXpedeJ
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In 2014, IRIS was one of several
@NASA observatories that saw the Sun’s own magnetic landscape put a stop to a burgeoning solar eruption. https://go.nasa.gov/2vumUVB pic.twitter.com/BJVPkjr6L8Sun Shreds Its Own EruptionOn Sept. 30, 2014, multiple NASA observatories watched what appeared to be the beginnings of a solar eruption. But instead of erupting, it collapsed, shredded to pieces by invisible magnetic forces.Show this thread -
This past August, IRIS caught a glimpse of the total solar eclipse from space! https://youtu.be/7RmczjiDlwE pic.twitter.com/QPLS65g4cB
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Last year, scientists published a new computer model that shows how solar spicules — jets of solar material that burst from the Sun’s surface — are created, based on IRIS’ data: https://go.nasa.gov/2sVQAvL pic.twitter.com/wuczVbd838
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Just a year after launch, IRIS data was already helping scientists shed new light on the mysteriously high temperatures in the Sun’s corona. https://go.nasa.gov/2KqMdBH pic.twitter.com/glMcIn0tX2
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And in 2016, IRIS, along with other observatories, helped scientists capture the first-ever observations of a solar wave traveling up into the Sun’s atmosphere from a sunspot. https://go.nasa.gov/2tHNSss pic.twitter.com/PAVCQtNOz9
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Que lindo, eu gosto de deixar ligado direto ela percorrendo a terra devagarinho, as vezes fico uns 50 dias sem desligar o PC. e sempre dou uma olhada. Nem imagino o que espero ver, acho que só a terra, é calmo, como um aquário
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Its wonderful!
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Gee...you'll never see CO2 doing this every single day, totally bombarding the earth relentlessly. CO2 on the other hand feeds green plants. Nothing more.
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Nice CGI
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Haha....idiota
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The sun is flat though
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Hahaha......
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Good to see our paxtayer $52 million a day is being well spent. That is some professional level CGI!
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Incredible..
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IRIS studies how light, matter and energy move from the Sun’s surface to its upper atmosphere, called the corona.