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Artist concept of space weather showing an active Sun with flares and a CME in the upper right, the Earth in the lower right with types of technology affected by space weather to the lower left; satellites, airplanes, the ISS and ground-based electrical lines.
Heliophysics

Studying the Sun-Earth connection.

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IRIS Image Gallery

  • Workers unload NASA's IRIS spacecraft from a truck at the processing facility at Vandenberg where the spacecraft will be readied for launch aboard an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket

    › IRIS Arrives at Vandenberg AFB

  • The fully integrated spacecraft and science instrument for IRIS mission is seen in a clean room.

    › IRIS Integration Complete

  • IRIS in the clean room.

    › IRIS in the Clean Room

  • IRIS sits in the clean room.

    › Solar Panel Integration Complete

  • IRIS with solar panels open in flight position.

    › Integrated IRIS spacecraft in Clean Room

  • Engineers inspect the solar panel connections on the IRIS.

    › Verifing the Solar Panel Connections

  • Testing the opening of the IRIS solar panels

    › Testing Solar Panel Functionality

  • IRIS with folded solar panels.

    › Solar Panels Installed

  • NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) with folded solar panels.

    › Solar Panels Attached

  • Engineers secure the solar panels to the telescope for IRIS.

    › Integration of Solar Panels

  • IRIS Mission logo

    › IRIS Mission Logo

  • An Engineer inspects the integrated IRIS solar telescope.

    › IRIS Integration Review

  • The IRIS telescope, wrapped in a protective film, has been mated to the spacecraft deck.

    › Ready for Solar Panels

  • The IRIS telescope, wrapped in a protective film, is mated to the spacecraft deck.

    › Mated to Flight Deck

  • IRIS' main telescope is ready to be mated to the back-end electronics

    › Mating Telescope and Electronics

  • IRIS' telescope component is ready for integration.

    › Ready for Integration

  • Working On IRIS Spectrometer

    › Working On IRIS Spectrometer

  • IRIS's telescope just prior to integration with the spacecraft bus.

    › IRIS Instrument Complete

  • IRIS's telescope just prior to integration with the spacecraft bus.

    › IRIS Instrument Ready for Integration

  • The spacecraft team poses in front of the completed  IRIS spacecraft bus.

    › IRIS Spacecraft Team

  • IRIS spacecraft bus in clean room.

    › IRIS Spacecraft Bus in Cleanroom

  • This cutaway diagram shows the IRIS spacecraft components.

    › Cutaway Diagram of IRIS

  • Graphic of IRIS satellite with components labeled.

    › IRIS Components

  • Artist rendition of IRIS.

    › IRIS - Black Background

  • Artist rendition of IRIS.

    › IRIS - White Background

  • Diagram of the layers of the Sun. The IRIS mission will focus on the outer layers

    › Layers of the Sun

  • Artist's concept of the IRIS satellite in orbit.

    › Concept IRIS in Orbit

  • Close-up of sunspot on Sept. 2000 as seen by TRACE.

    › TRACE's View of AR 9169