Highest resolution pictures of Sun’s outer atmosphere captured by NASA’S sounding rocket.
They also provide visual evidence that the staggeringly hot material that fills the Sun’s corona which is some 300 times hotter than its surface has a definite structure on fine scales, rather than being a homogenous soup of particles.
The sounding rocket has a High-resolution coronal imager mounted on it. The pictures were captured on the third flight of the rocket from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on May 20, 2018.
The Hi-C mission is led by principal investigator Amy Winebarger of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The images were published in the Astrophysical Journal on April 7, 2020.
– Anirudh
Credits: NASA
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