Today, a sounding rocket capable to collect 1,500 images of the Sun in a time frame of five minutes is set for launch.
Capturing five images per second, the Rapid Acquisition Imaging Spectrograph Experiment (RAISE) mission will focus in on the split-second changes that occur near active regions on the Sun. RAISE will generate a kind of dataproduct called a spectrogram which separates the light from the sun into different wavelength bands.
These are areas of dense and complex magnetic fields that can give rise to giant eruptions on the Sun that shoot energy and particles out in all directions, the US space agency said in its communication.
