The first science result from the Aditya-L1 mission, India’s first scientific mission dedicated to studying the Sun, is out. Scientists who developed Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) onboard Aditya-L1 precisely estimated the onset time of a coronal mass ejection that erupted on the Sun on July 16. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched Aditya-L1 on September 2, 2023, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The spacecraft’s VELC payload was developed by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIAp), Bengaluru. “The CMEs are usually observed in visible continuum light only when they have propagated well away from the Sun’s surface.

Source: The Hindu November 04, 2024 22:03 UTC