To this day, we do not have a deep knowledge of the sun, the energy center of life on Earth. There is still no clear answer as to why the solar corona is hotter than the Sun’s surface. That is, the surface of the Sun is cooler than the corona. NASA’s Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer has been launched to answer these critical questions.
Although there have been soft X-ray spectrometer missions in the past, they have not been able to record the energy distribution in the Sun’s corona. At the same time, NASA hopes that MaGIXS will be able to gather crucial information about the heat distribution in the Sun’s corona. This information may help to determine when…
