Burning Mysteries Of The Sun You Should Know As ISRO Launches Aditya-L1
After a historic landing on the South Pole of the moon with Chandrayaan-3, India successfully launched Aditya L-1, its maiden mission to the sun, on Saturday.?Unlike the moon mission, it is obvious that the nation may have some difficulty sticking a landing on the blazing gas ball.
ISRO's Maiden Solar Mission
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is aiming to park the Aditya L1 spacecraft in a spot that has been marked as the ¡°L1¡± point in space.
The spot is located at a distance of 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. ISRO estimates that its spacecraft will achieve the milestone feat in about 4 months from its launch on Saturday, September 2.
Studying the sun is of paramount importance, as disturbances in the form of solar flares, coronal mass ejections, or solar winds can adversely affect and impact the space weather system and even cause changes in the environmental qualities of our planet.
