Moss on the Sun (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Moss on the Sun

Caption

At the center of this image (left) from NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager sounding rocket is a small-scale, patchy structure on the Sun that solar physicists call “moss.”  It forms low in the solar atmosphere around the center of sunspot groups on the Sun where magnetic activity is strong. An image from NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, mission shows a detailed scenery of the cooler roots of moss (right).

Credit

NASA/Bose et al 2024

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