Viewing the Sun with X-Ray Vision adapted from NASA
Which research question is most useful to find more information about the manufacturing process of sounding rockets?
OA. What types of materials are sourced by engineers to create sounding rockets?
OB. Do sounding rockets have advantages for use in addition to low cost?
OC. How many instruments can fit inside sounding rockets?
OD. What do sounding rockets look like?
Without special instrumentation, the Sun looks calm and inactive. But far beyond
what we can see the sun's surface is active with countless miniature explosions
called nanoflares
These small but intense eruptions are born when magnetic field lines in the
Sun's atmosphere tangle up and stretch until they break like a rubber band
According to some scientists, nanoflares heat the solar atmosphere to its intense
million-degree Fahrenheit temperature
All of this happens in colors of light so extreme that the human eye can't see
them Nanoflares aren't visible to the naked eye
Finding traces of nanoflares requires x-ray vision, and scientists have been
working hard to develop the best tools for the job. The latest advancement in this
project is represented by NASA's Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager or FOXSI
mission
FOXSI is a sounding rocket mission. Derived from the nautical term "to sound,"
meaning to measure" sounding rockets make brief 15-minute journeys above
Earth's atmosphere for a peek at space before falling back to the ground. Smaller,
cheaper, and faster to develop than large-scale satellite missions, sounding rockets
offer a way for scientists to test their latest ideas and instruments and achieve rapid
results
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Read the passage. excerpt from "why equal pay is worth fighting for" by senator elizabeth warren, april 17, 2014 i honestly can't believe that we're still arguing over equal pay in 2014. when i started teaching elementary school after college, the public school district didn't hide the fact that it had two pay scales: one for men and one for women. women have made incredible strides since then. but 40 years later, we're still debating equal pay for equal work. women today still earn only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, and they're taking a hit in nearly every occupation. bloomberg analyzed census data and found that median earnings for women were lower than those for men in 264 of 265 major occupation categories. in 99.6 percent of occupations, men get paid more than women. that's not an accident; that's discrimination. the effects of this discrimination are real, and they are long lasting. today, more young women go to college than men, but unequal pay makes it harder for them to pay back student loans. pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women. . for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by, and many families depend as much on mom's salary as they do on dad's, if not more. women are the main breadwinners, or joint breadwinners, in two-thirds of the families across the country, and pay discrimination makes it that much harder for these families to stay afloat. women are ready to fight back against pay discrimination, but it's not easy. today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes. here in the senate, sen. barbara mikulski (d-md.) introduced the paycheck fairness act to give women the tools to combat wage discrimination. it would ensure that salary differences have something to do with the actual job that they are doing, and not just because they are women. senator warren states that the effects of pay discrimination are long-lasting. is this a valid argument supported by accurate evidence? no; warren weakens her point by claiming that the paycheck fairness act would "give women the tools to combat wage discrimination." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women." no; warren weakens her point by noting, "today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes."