{"id":2630,"date":"2013-06-05T14:17:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T14:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2013-06-05T14:17:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T14:17:38","slug":"iris-spacecraft-set-to-launch-june-26th-to-study-the-solar-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2630","title":{"rendered":"IRIS spacecraft, set to launch June 26th, to study the solar wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video shows a NASA news briefing about a new solar wind research spacecraft, the <a href=\"http:\/\/iris.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_d\">Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)<\/a>, which will launch this month:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NASA hosts a news update about the June 26 launch of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.<\/p>\n<p>IRIS is a NASA Small Explorer Mission to observe how solar material moves in a dynamic million-degree atmosphere that drives the solar wind around the Sun&#8217;s atmosphere. The region is the origin of most of the ultraviolet solar emission that impacts the near-Earth space environment and Earth&#8217;s climate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HCg3MkL93rY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video shows a NASA news briefing about a new solar wind research spacecraft, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), which will launch this month: NASA hosts a news update about the June 26 launch of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. IRIS is a NASA Small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2630\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IRIS spacecraft, set to launch June 26th, to study the solar wind<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-science","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Gq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3637,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3637","url_meta":{"origin":2630,"position":0},"title":"New IRIS space telescope sees fine details of sun&#8217;s atmosphere","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA releases images of the suns atmosphere (in particular the\u00a0the interface between the photosphere and corona) from the newly launched Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) observatory: NASA's IRIS Telescope Offers First Glimpse of Sun's Mysterious Atmosphere -\u00a0 NASA These two images show a section of the sun as seen by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Solar Science&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Solar Science","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=31"},"img":{"alt_text":"Comparison SDO and IRIS solar images","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/673xvariable_height\/public\/sdo_iriscomparison_0.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7992,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7992","url_meta":{"origin":2630,"position":1},"title":"Video: NASA&#8217;s IRIS observes giant solar eruption","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A great look at a huge burst of energy and mass from the sun's corona courtesy of NASA's\u00a0Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)\u00a0: A First for NASA's IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Multiple media&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Multiple media","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=36"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/SuAjao9e51U\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3117,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3117","url_meta":{"origin":2630,"position":2},"title":"Video: This Week @ NASA &#8211; July.1.13","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest This Week @ NASA: http:\/\/youtu.be\/R74jUezvfAI Caption: NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph or IRIS mission is underway. 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