SUNRISE Offers New Insight on Sun's Atmosphere

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Three months after the flight of the solar observatory Sunrise – carried aloft by a NASA scientific balloon in early June 2013 -- scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have presented unique insights into a layer on the sun called the chromosphere. Sunrise provided the highest-resolution images to date in ultraviolet light of this thin corrugated layer, which lies between the sun's visible surface and the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona.

 

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/sunrise-offers-new-insight-on-suns-atmosphere/