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  "Spase": {
    "xmlns": "http://www.spase-group.org/data/schema",
    "xmlns:xsi": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance",
    "xsi:schemaLocation": "https://www.spase-group.org/data/schema  https://www.spase-group.org/data/schema/spase-2.7.1.xsd",
    "Version": "2.7.1",
    "Observatory": {
      "ResourceID": "spase://SMWG/Observatory/IRIS",
      "ResourceType": "Observatory",
      "ResourceHeader": {
        "ResourceName": "Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)",
        "AlternateName": "2013-033A",
        "ReleaseDate": "2026-07-20T16:22:46Z",
        "RevisionHistory": {
          "RevisionEvent": [
            {
              "ReleaseDate": "2019-05-05T12:34:56Z",
              "Note": "Only known prior ReleaseDate of the metadata"
            },
            {
              "ReleaseDate": "2026-04-09T00:08:46Z",
              "Note": "Fixed ObservatoryRegion; Updated Contact and InfomationURL"
            },
            {
              "ReleaseDate": "2026-07-20T16:22:46Z",
              "Note": "Added HelioData InformationURL. JWL"
            }
          ]
        },
        "Description": "The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a NASA Small Explorer class solar mission. It was launched from a Pegasus XL flying out of Vandenberg AFB in California. The rocket was deployed from an Orbital L-1101 carrier aircraft flying over the Pacific Ocean at an altitude of 39,000 feet (about 12 km), roughly 100 miles northwest of Vandenberg. The rocket was dropped at 7:27 p.m. PDT on 27 June 2013 (02:27 UT, 28 June).\n\nIRIS is intended to advance Sun-Earth connection studies by tracing the flow of energy and plasma into the corona and heliosphere for which no suitable observations exist. To achieve this IRIS will obtain high-resolution UV spectra and images of the sun's chromosphere, specifically on the non-thermal energy that creates the corona and the solar wind.\n\nIRIS seeks to determine: (1) the types of non-thermal energy which dominate in the chromosphere and beyond; (2) the means by which the chromosphere regulates mass and energy supply to the corona and heliosphere; and, (3) how magnetic flux and matter rise through the lower solar atmosphere, and the role played by flux emergence in flares and mass ejections. To answer these questions, IRIS will utilize a single intrument, a multi-channel imaging spectrograph. See the experiment description for details on the IRIS instrument.",
        "Contact": [
          {
            "PersonID": "spase://SMWG/Person/Bart.De.Pontieu",
            "Role": "PrincipalInvestigator"
          },
          {
            "PersonID": "spase://SMWG/Person/Alan.M.Title",
            "Role": "FormerPI"
          },
          {
            "PersonID": "spase://SMWG/Person/Adrian.N.Daw",
            "Role": "ProjectScientist"
          },
          {
            "PersonID": "spase://SMWG/Person/Joel.C.Allred",
            "Role": "ProjectScientist"
          },
          {
            "PersonID": "spase://SMWG/Person/Deborah.Knapp",
            "Role": "MissionManager"
          },
          {
            "PersonID": "spase://SMWG/Person/Gary.D.Kushner",
            "Role": "ProjectManager"
          },
          {
            "PersonID": "spase://SMWG/Person/Chris.Hoffmann",
            "Role": "ProjectEngineer"
          }
        ],
        "InformationURL": [
          {
            "Name": "NSSDC's Master Catalog",
            "URL": "https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2013-033A",
            "Description": "Information about IRIS"
          },
          {
            "Name": "The Official IRIS website at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center",
            "URL": "https://iris.gsfc.nasa.gov/"
          },
          {
            "Name": "The Official IRIS website at Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory",
            "URL": "https://iris.lmsal.com/"
          },
          {
            "Name": "HelioData",
            "URL": "https://helio.data.nasa.gov/mission/IRIS",
            "Description": "The HelioData mission page provides an overview of the mission and more, such as all SPASE dataset records associated with it."
          }
        ]
      },
      "Location": {
        "ObservatoryRegion": "Earth.NearSurface"
      }
    }
  }
}