Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman S. Somnath on Saturday said India’s first solar mission Aditya L1 will play an important role in uncovering the mysteries of the Sun.
Somnath said after the successful launch of the Aditya L1 mission, This is a historic day for our country. Aditya L1 will play an important role in increasing our knowledge about the Sun. We hope that this mission will provide information about solar activity, and solar corona. Will answer many scientific questions like temperature and origin of solar storms etc.
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)’s first solar mission, Aditya L1, entered its final orbit today. The mission is to study the Sun’s corona and understand its extreme heat.
Aditya L1 was launched on September 2 last year. The mission has undergone four Earth-bound manoeuvres and one trans-Lagrangian Point 1 insertion manoeuvre.
Today, Aditya L1 completed its final manoeuvre and entered a halo orbit around Lagrange point 1 (L1), the closest point to the Sun. This point is located between the Earth and the Sun, where the gravitational forces of the two bodies balance each other.
The Aditya L1 mission consists of seven scientific instruments that will study different aspects of the Sun. These instruments include a photometer, spectrometer, X-ray and gamma-ray detector etc.
ISRO Chairman S. Somnath said that Aditya L1’s mission will play an important role in revealing the mysteries of the Sun. He said that this mission is expected to answer many scientific questions like solar activity, the temperature of solar corona origin of solar storms etc.
Somnath said that ISRO has worked hard for more than 15 years for the Aditya L1 mission. He said that congratulations to all the scientists and engineers involved in this mission. Aditya L1 mission will be operated from ISRO’s Space Science Centre, Bengaluru.
