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NASA Souding Rocket Launches, Studies Heating of Sun’s Active Regions


Investigators at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will use observations from a recently-launched MaGIXS-2 sounding rocket mission to provide a clearer image of how and why the Sun’s corona grows so much hotter than the visible surface of Earth’s parent star.

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