High resolution coronal imager

The rescue team poses for a photo on landing before the instrument is loaded into a pair of U.S. Army helicopters and brought back to base.

The High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) is a suborbital telescope that was built to take high resolution images of the solar corona . It was launched on July 11, 2012 aboard a sounding rocket from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico .

mission

Images of the sun's corona, which is several million degrees hot, with images of the winding magnetic heads (left in the image).

The telescope weighs 210 kilograms and took 165 images during its short 620-second flight.

See also

• Solar Dynamics Observatory

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spiegel Online from January 24, 2013: NASA study: Magnetic fields heat the sun's atmosphere to millions of degrees
2. ↑ NASA website: 'Hi-C' Mission Sees Energy in the Sun's Corona