The nation’s solar observation mission, which is traveling towards the Sun, has transmitted its first photographs, which the Indian space agency Isro has released.Aditya-L1 launched on Saturday and will travel 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) from Earth, or 1% of the distance between the Earth and the Sun.According to Isro, it will take four months to get there.Only a few days had passed since India made history by landing as the first nation close to the south pole of the moon. Isro provided two images obtained by a camera installed aboard Aditya-L1 on September 4 in the early hours of Thursday.
The Earth and the Moon are both visible in one of the photographs, however the Moon is a little dot in the background while the Earth is a huge object. The second image is a “selfie” of two of the seven scientific tools the solar expedition is carrying.After Surya, the Hindu sun deity also known as Aditya, India’s first space-based mission to investigate the largest object in the solar system was established.
The Indian spacecraft is traveling to the precise Lagrange point 1, or L1, which is located exactly between the Sun and the Earth.A Lagrange point, according to the European Space Agency, is a location where the gravitational effects of two massive objects, such as the Sun and the Earth, cancel each other out and allow a spacecraft to “hover.”
Aditya-L1 will be able to circle the Sun at the same speed as Earth once it reaches its “parking spot” As a result, the satellite’s fuel requirements will be extremely low. Aditya-L1 has already successfully finished two orbits around the planet since its Saturday launch. It will then be launched into L1 after doing three more Earth orbits.It will be able to conduct research from this vantage point and keep a continual eye on the Sun.The cost of the mission has not been disclosed by Isro, however reports in the Indian press place it at 3.78 billion rupees (US$46 million; UK£36 million).
The orbiter is equipped with seven scientific equipment to examine and study the solar corona, which is the sun’s outermost layer, the photosphere, which is the part of the sun that is visible from Earth, and the chromosphere, which is a thin layer of plasma between the photosphere and the corona.The research will aid in scientists’ understanding of solar activity, including the solar wind and solar flares, and their immediate impact on Earth and near-space weather.Aditya, according to scientists, will contribute to our understanding of the star that sustains us.
