Did you know the Sun has moss? Due to its resemblance to the earthly plants, scientists have named a small-scale, bright, patchy structure made of plasma in the solar atmosphere “moss.” This moss, which was first identified in 1999 by NASA’s TRACE mission, blossoms around the center of a sunspot group, where magnetic conditions are […]
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Ames Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics, Heliophysics Division, IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph), MUSE (Multi-slit Solar Explorer), Sounding Rockets, Sounding Rockets Program, Sunspots, The Sun
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April 16, 2024
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