{"id":208910,"date":"2013-06-27T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_2542.html"},"modified":"2013-06-27T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T00:00:00","slug":"aircraft-carrying-iris-solar-observatory-takes-off-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=208910","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft Carrying IRIS Solar Observatory Takes Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tAn Orbital Sciences L-1011 carrier aircraft takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on a mission to launch NASA&#8217;s IRIS spacecraft into low-Earth orbit. IRIS, short for Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, was launched on June 27, 2013 aboard an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket released from the L-1011.<\/p>\n<p>\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tIRIS is a NASA Small Explorer Mission to observe how solar material moves, gathers energy and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the sun&#8217;s lower atmosphere. This interface region between the sun&#8217;s photosphere and corona powers its dynamic million-degree atmosphere and drives the solar wind.<\/p>\n<p>\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tPhoto Credit: VAFB\/Chris Wiant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tAn Orbital Sciences L-1011 carrier aircraft takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on a mission to launch NASA&#8217;s IRIS spacecraft into low-Earth orbit. IRIS, short for Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, was launched on June 27, 2013 aboard an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket released from the L-1011.<\/p>\n<p>\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tIRIS is a NASA Small Explorer Mission to observe how solar material moves, gathers energy and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the sun&#8217;s lower atmosphere. This interface region between the sun&#8217;s photosphere and corona powers its dynamic million-degree atmosphere and drives the solar wind.<\/p>\n<p>\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tPhoto Credit: VAFB\/Chris Wiant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209132,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208910\/revisions\/209132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}