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Want to learn more about the sun? NASA certainly does. The space agency is planning on launching a sounding rocket, called VERIS, on August 8 in order to learn a bit more about our closest star. This image combines three images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 pm EDT, just as an M-class solar flare from the same region was subsiding. (Photo : NASA/SDO/AIA)
Want to learn more about the sun? NASA certainly does. The space agency is planning on launching a sounding rocket on August 8 in order to learn a bit more about our closest star. Scientists hope to measure properties of the structures in the sun's upper atmosphere with images that will be eight times clearer than any similar telescope currently in space.
Observing the sun is important for understanding the phenomenon of space weather. Our star can hurl particles toward Earth in the form of a coronal mass ejection (CME), which can interrupt satellites and communications. Learning a bit more about the structures that fluctuate on the sun could, potentially, allow researchers to predict these kinds of events and better prepare for them.
"On the sun, these large scale energy releases are driven by small scale physical processes," said Clarence Korendyke, one of the researchers, in a news release. "So we need to look at and understand the tiny details of those processes."
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