{"id":55910,"date":"2025-07-20T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=55910"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:10:22","slug":"solar-eruption-integral-field-spectrograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/solar-eruption-integral-field-spectrograph\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NASA, along with a team of international solar physicists, will launch a sounding rocket Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) experiment from New Mexico.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>sounding rocket<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is designed to break new ground by using a unique set of capabilities to probe the most vexingly <\/span><b>complex region of the solar atmosphere<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>chromosphere.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The SNIFS rocket mission has a primary objective to explore the energetics and dynamics of the chromosphere using a next-generation solar spectral imager.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the first ever <\/span><b>solar ultraviolet integral field spectrograph<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an advanced technology <\/span><b>combining an imager and a spectrograph<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagers capture photos and videos, which are good for seeing the combined light from a large field of view all at once.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Spectrographs<\/b> <b>dissect light into its various wavelengths,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> revealing which elements are present in the light source, their temperature, and how they\u2019re moving \u2014 but only from a single location at a time.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The SNIFS mission combines these two technologies into one instrument.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will <\/span><b>observe a magnetically active region<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the Sun and capture high-resolution spectroscopic data from both the <\/span><b>chromosphere and the transition region<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 in real time<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SNIFS will <\/span><b>target the hydrogen Lyman-alpha line<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 the brightest line in the solar ultraviolet spectrum and one of the most powerful diagnostics for upper chromospheric conditions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/nasa-to-launch-sounding-rocket-to-study-suns-chromosphere-10132871\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>IE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph is a sounding rocket designed to break new ground by using a unique set of capabilities to probe the 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