High Resolution Coronal Imager

The recovering team poses for a photo with the payload before loading the instrument into a pair of U.S. Army helicopters and returning to base.

The High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) is a sub-orbital telescope designed to take high-resolution images of the Sun's corona. As of 2020 it has been launched three times, but only the first and the third launches, on July 11, 2012, and May 29, 2018, resulted in a successful mission.[1] It was launched aboard a Black Brant sounding rocket from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.[2] The images taken were the highest resolution photos ever of the Sun's corona.[3]

  1. ^ Thomas Williams; et al. (Apr 7, 2020). "Is the High-Resolution Coronal Imager Resolving Coronal Strands? Results from AR 12712". The Astrophysical Journal. 892 (2): 134. arXiv:2001.11254. Bibcode:2020ApJ...892..134W. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab6dcf.
  2. ^ "NASA HIC". Apogee Imaging Systems. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
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