| The emergence of multilayer coated optics technology has offered solar physics an unprecedented opportunity to obtain images of the corona at spatial resolutions previously unattainable. A previous demonstration of the efficacy of this technique, the Stanford/Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA) Rocket X-ray Spectroheliograph, rendered full disk images of the solar corona between 1 and 2 arc seconds spatial resolution and spanning more than 3 solar radii. Further images were obtained during the 1991 flight of the Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array (MSSTA) at comparable or higher resolutions ({dollar}leq{dollar}1 arc second) and spanning a broader range of the Soft X-ray/EUV spectrum. This thesis describes the development of the MSSTA and presents a preliminary analysis of some plasma loops observed in the corona. |
