ISRO gets important success in solar mission, Aditya L1 captures sun flares, sends pictures
ISRO Aditya L1 Mission: ISRO's first solar mission Aditya L1 has achieved important success. The spacecraft has captured many recent activities of the Sun and sent their pictures. ISRO said that these pictures have been taken with the help of two remote sensing instruments installed in the spacecraft. ISRO has shared many pictures of different solar flares.
Aditya L1, ISRO's first solar mission, has had a significant success rate. The spacecraft photographed several of the Sun's recent activities and relayed them. ISRO stated that these images were collected with the assistance of two remote sensing equipment placed in the spacecraft.
ISRO has posted numerous photos of various solar flares taken in May 2024. According to ISRO, the Solar Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) and Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) sensors captured these events.
ISRO said in its statement that several X-class and M-class flares associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were recorded, causing significant geomagnetic storms. The space agency said that several X-class and M-class flares erupted in the Sun's AR13664 active region from May 8 to 15, which were associated with the CMEs of May 8 and 9. These caused a major geomagnetic storm on May 11.
It is worth noting that Aditya-L1 is India's first solar mission, which was launched on September 2, 2023. It reached the Lagrangian point (L1) on January 6 this year, 127 days after launch. L1 is located about 1.5 million km from Earth. From here the spacecraft is able to continuously observe the Sun.
