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Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
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Mission brief
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The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) 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's lower atmosphere.
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