ISRO's objectives behind India's first solar mission? Astrophysicist explains
BY - Srushti sharma
India's Aditya L1 mission aims to observe the Sun's corona and understand its extreme heat.
Our primary aim is to continuously observe the Sun for 24 hours a day , a feat not possible from Earth's orbit,
This uninterrupted observation is vital for monitoring the Sun's activities closely
Aditya L1 with two major instruments, complemented by five smaller ones
One of the key instruments, named SUIT is an ultraviolet imager that captures continuous images of the Sun
The second major instrument , VELC is a spectrograph that focuses on the Sun's corona—the outermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere
One of our primary goal is to understand why the Sun's corona is astonishingly hot
Sun's corona reaches temperatures of up to 2 million degreesbut the surface of the sun is 5000 degrees celsius
simultaneous monitoring is required to shed light on the mysteries of the Sun's behavior