Total Solar Eclipse 2024: ISRO's Aditya-L1 To Track The Sun During The Celestial Event
The world is all set to witness? a rare event - the total solar eclipse of 2024. The total solar eclipse will happen from 9:12 pm on April 8 to 2:22 am on April 9, 2024 Indian time. The "path of totality" when the moon completely covers the sun will start at 10:08 pm, and will last only for four minutes.
Is total solar eclipse visible in India?
Unfortunately for Indians, the celestial event will not be visible and only those in a 185-kilometre stretch between Mexico, the US, and Canada can witness the spectacular sight.
Aditya-L1 to watch eclipse from space?
But an Indian eye in the sky will be keeping a close watch on the sun during the total solar eclipse. India's solar probe Aditya-L1 will track the behaviour and rays of the Sun during the total solar eclipse.
This is also the first total solar eclipse of the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Aditya-L1 which was launched on September 2, 2023.
In January this year, Aditya-L1 was placed on its Lagrange Point, which is about 1.5 million km from the Earth and 1 per cent of the total distance between the Earth and the Sun.?
What Aditya-L1 will be observing
From its Lagrange Point, the Aditya-L1 can see the Sun unobstructed even during the eclipse, understand the changes that occur in the sun and the characteristics that occur when the radiation does not reach the earth and know the radiation of the sun's rays and the changes it causes in space.
The Aditya-L1 has six instruments on board and the eclipsing Sun will be observed by the visible emission line coronagraph and ultraviolet imaging telescope.
Eclipse-induced changes in the solar photosphere, chromosphere, and ultraviolet spectrum can also be closely monitored.
Next total solar eclipse
A total solar eclipse is when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun and the Moon completely covers the Sun. The next total solar eclipse is likely to take place only in August 2026.
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