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22nd June 2016, 11:37 AM
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Re: ISRO Aditya

Aditya or Aditya-L1 is a spacecraft whose mission is to study the Sun. It was conceptualized by the Advisory Committee for Space Research in January 2008.

It has been designed and will be built in collaboration between Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and various Indian research organizations and will be launched by ISRO around 2019-2020.

This will be the first Indian space mission to study the Sun, and also the first Indian mission to be placed at Lagrangian point L1 -- far away from the Earth from where continuous solar observations are possible.

Aditya-1 is meant to observe only the solar corona. The outer layers of the Sun, extending to thousands of km above the disc (photosphere) is termed as the corona.

It has a temperature of more than a million degree Kelvin which is much higher than the solar disc temperature of around 6000K.

How the corona gets heated to such high temperatures is still an unanswered question in solar physics.

Aditya-L1 with additional experiments can now provide observations of Sun's Photosphere (soft and hard X-ray), Chromosphere (UV) and corona (Visible and NIR).

In addition, particle payloads will study the particle flux emanating from the Sun and reaching the L1 orbit, and the magnetometer payload will measure the variation in magnetic field strength at the halo orbit around L1.

These payloads have to be placed outside the interference from the Earth’s magnetic field and could not have been useful in the low earth orbit.

ISRO Aditya - L1 First Indian mission to study the Sun




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