Close-up view of X1-class solar flare via NASA's IRIS mission

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured an X1.1-class solar flare. See time-lapse footage of the ...
SpaceNews

NASA’s IRIS Mission to Launch in June

Lying just above the sun’s surface is an enigmatic region of the solar atmosphere called the interface region. A relatively thin region, just 3,000 to 6,000 miles thick, it pulses with movement: Zones ...
SpaceNews

NASA IRIS Observatory — Designed And Built By Lockheed Martin — Sees First Light

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) observatory, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for NASA, has produced its first images and spectra of a little understood region of the ...
SpaceRef

Q&A with Robert Carvalho, Flight Controller and Ground Data System Engineer for the IRIS Mission

Robert Carvalho began his career at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., interning as a computer engineer in 1993. Since then, he has worked on a variety of projects, including helping ...
Forbes

Iris, The World’s First Nano Lunar Rover: What We Learned

The Iris nano rover built by Carnegie Mellon University students. Generally when a rocket explodes on pad, fails to achieve escape velocity, or otherwise does not complete its mission, it’s a failure.
The New York Times

It Started as Winter Break. It Ended With a Doomed Moon Mission.

Carnegie Mellon University students built Iris, a tiny lunar rover. When the spacecraft carrying it to the moon malfunctioned, they turned their vacation house into mission control. By Kenneth Chang A ...
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NASA's IRIS Mission Readies For a New Challenge

The time draws near. NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and ...