Aditya L1 Mission

Recently, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) releases Images of the Sun Captured by Aditya-L1 Payloads.

Aditya-L1’s SUIT and VELC Capture Solar Fury

The images were taken by the remote sensing payloads Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) and Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) aboard the Aditya-L1 spacecraft.

• These images will aid in the study of solar flares, energy distribution, sunspots, understanding and predicting space weather, and monitoring solar activity and UV radiation across a broad wavelength range.

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About SUIT and VELC

• SUIT (Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope): Designed to image the solar photosphere and chromosphere in the near ultraviolet (UV) spectrum and measure variations in solar irradiance in the near UV range.
• VELC (Visible Emission Line Coronagraph): Aims to study the solar corona and the dynamics of coronal mass ejections.

Aditya-L1 Mission

• About: Launched in 2023, Aditya-L1 is India’s inaugural space mission aimed at observing the Sun from a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, located approximately 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. 
• Launching Vehicle: The mission was launched aboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) XL (PSLV-C57) and carries seven payloads.
• Significance of Aditya-L1: To explore the processes of coronal heating and acceleration of solar wind. 
  • To observe the in-situ particle and plasma environment, providing valuable data for the study of particle dynamics originating from the Sun.

Other Solar Missions

• NASA’s Parker Solar Probe
• The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory by the European Space Agency
• China’s Kuafu-1 Solar Probe

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