Science and Exploration

IRIS Footage of X-class Flare

By Keith Cowing
September 18, 2014
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IRIS Footage of X-class Flare
Solar Flare on 10 June 2014
NASA

On Sept. 10, 2014, NASA’s newest solar observatory, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, mission joined other telescopes to witness an X-class flare – an example of one of the strongest solar flares — on the sun.

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