BENGALURU: Two of the main scientific instruments (payloads) on India’s first dedicated solar space observatory mission, Aditya-L1, have captured images and data of intense solar activity during a period of heightened eruptions on the Sun in May 2024.Sharing data from the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) and the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) payloads on … Read more
BENGALURU: The Plasma Analyser Package for Aditya (PAPA) payload on board Aditya-L1 satellite has successfully detected the impact of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on solar wind, including CME events that occurred on Feb 10-11, Isro said on Friday.PAPA has two sensors — Solar Wind Electron Energy Probe (SWEEP) to measure electrons and Solar Wind Ion … Read more
AHMEDABAD: India’s maiden solar mission ‘Aditya L1‘ will reach its destination, the Lagrangian point (L1) which is located 1.5 million km from Earth, on January 6, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman S Somanath said here on Friday. The mission, the first Indian space-based observatory to study the Sun from a halo orbit L1, was … Read more
