Using its imaging spectrometer, Resi recorded 100,000 X ray events, according to the agency, as well as gamma ray images were gathered, it marked the first time that gamma ray and high energy Xray images of solar flares have actually been captured until its decommissioning in 2018 due to communications difficulties. The spacecraft also aided the discoveries relating to the Sun's shape and terrestrial gamma ray flashes, which are bursts that occur over lightning storms on Earth