Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph

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NASA, along with a team of international solar physicists, will launch a sounding rocket Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) experiment from New Mexico. 

About Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph

• Its sounding rocket is designed to break new ground by using a unique set of capabilities to probe the most vexingly complex region of the solar atmosphere, the chromosphere.
• The SNIFS rocket mission has a primary objective to explore the energetics and dynamics of the chromosphere using a next-generation solar spectral imager.
• It is the first ever solar ultraviolet integral field spectrograph, an advanced technology combining an imager and a spectrograph.
• Imagers capture photos and videos, which are good for seeing the combined light from a large field of view all at once.
• Spectrographs dissect light into its various wavelengths, revealing which elements are present in the light source, their temperature, and how they’re moving — but only from a single location at a time. 
• The SNIFS mission combines these two technologies into one instrument.  
• It will observe a magnetically active region on the Sun and capture high-resolution spectroscopic data from both the chromosphere and the transition region — in real time
• SNIFS will target the hydrogen Lyman-alpha line — the brightest line in the solar ultraviolet spectrum and one of the most powerful diagnostics for upper chromospheric conditions.

Source: IE

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