The Aditya-L1 mission, which started its four-month journey towards the center of the solar system on September 2, carries instruments to observe the Sun’s outermost layers. ADVERTISEMENT“The spacecraft has escaped the sphere of Earth’s influence,” the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said in a statement late Saturday. Aditya, named after the Hindu Sun deity, has traveled 920,000 kilometers (570,000 miles), just over half the journey’s total distance. The United States and the European Space Agency have sent numerous probes to the centre of the solar system, beginning with NASA’s Pioneer program in the 1960s. Japan and China have both launched their own solar observatory missions into Earth orbit.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 01, 2023 17:57 UTC