MOSES-2 sounding rocket to investigate coronal heating

A NASA-funded sounding rocket is getting ready to launch to give insight into one of the biggest mysteries in solar physics--the fact the sun's atmosphere is some 1,000 times hotter than its surface. The mission, developed by scientists and students at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, will make a 15-minute journey into space on a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket. During its trip, it will take images of the sun in the extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, which can't be seen from the...