{"id":7992,"date":"2014-06-01T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7992"},"modified":"2014-06-01T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T14:50:09","slug":"video-nasas-iris-observes-giant-solar-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7992","title":{"rendered":"Video: NASA&#8217;s IRIS observes giant solar eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great look at a huge burst of energy and mass from the sun&#8217;s corona courtesy of NASA&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iris.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_d\">Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)<\/a>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/goddard\/a-first-for-nasas-iris-observing-a-gigantic-eruption-of-solar-material\/index.html#.U4s4OvldVsI\" target=\"_d\">A First for NASA&#8217;s IRIS: Observing a Gigantic<br \/>\nEruption of Solar Material<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014, and NASA&#8217;s newest solar observatory caught it in extraordinary detail. This was the first CME observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, which launched in June 2013 to peer into the lowest levels of the sun&#8217;s atmosphere with better resolution than ever before. Watch the movie to see how a curtain of solar material erupts outward at speeds of 1.5 million miles per hour.<\/p>\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\/SuAjao9e51U?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<div class=\"field field-name-field-feature-sidecaption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<div class=\"field-items\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: center;\"><em>A coronal mass ejection burst off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014.<br \/>\nThe giant sheet of solar material erupting was the first CME seen<br \/>\nby NASA&#8217;s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS. The<br \/>\nfield of view seen here is about five Earths wide and about<br \/>\nseven-and-a-half Earths tall.<br \/>\nImage Credit: \u00a0NASA\/LMSAL\/IRIS\/SDO\/Goddard<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>IRIS must commit to pointing at certain areas of the sun at least a day in advance, so catching a CME in the act involves some educated guesses and a little bit of luck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We focus in on active regions to try to see a flare or a CME,&#8221; said Bart De Pontieu, the IRIS science lead at Lockheed Martin Solar &amp; Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. &#8220;And then we wait and hope that we&#8217;ll catch something. This is the first clear CME for IRIS so the team is very excited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The IRIS imagery focuses in on material of 30,000 kelvins at the base, or foot points, of the CME. The line moving across the middle of the movie is the entrance slit for IRIS&#8217;s spectrograph, an instrument that can split light into its many wavelengths \u2013 a technique that ultimately allows scientists to measure temperature, velocity and density of the solar material behind the slit.<\/p>\n<p>The field of view for this imagery is about five Earths wide and about seven-and-a-half Earths tall.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin Solar &amp; Astrophysics Laboratory designed the IRIS Observatory and manages the mission. NASA&#8217;s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, provides mission operations and ground data systems. NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the Explorers Program for NASA&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great look at a huge burst of energy and mass from the sun&#8217;s corona courtesy of NASA&#8217;s\u00a0Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)\u00a0: A First for NASA&#8217;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, 2014, and NASA&#8217;s newest solar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7992\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: NASA&#8217;s IRIS observes giant solar eruption<\/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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiple-media","category-solar-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-24U","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3637,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3637","url_meta":{"origin":7992,"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":2630,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2630","url_meta":{"origin":7992,"position":1},"title":"IRIS spacecraft, set to launch June 26th, to study the solar wind","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"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.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Solar Science&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Solar Science","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=31"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/HCg3MkL93rY\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3117,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3117","url_meta":{"origin":7992,"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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