NASA-Funded Sounding Rocket to Gather 1,500 Sun Images in 5 Minutes
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 05, 2014 - A sounding rocket outfitted with technology to gather 1,500 images of the sun over its five-minute mission is preparing to launch in early November 2014. Capturing five images per second, the RAISE mission will focus in on the split-second changes that occur near active regions on the sun - areas of intense and complex magnetic fields that can give birth to giant eruptions on the sun that ... more

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