Info-paedia : Aditya-L1, India’s first solar mission
Why In News?
The Indian Space Research Organization is working on a space project
Aditya L1 that will study the sun.
Recently, the ISRO chairman announced that the spacecraft is to be
launched in June or July 2023.
The Spacecraft is to Study the following:
Solar Winds: These winds are created due to the expansion of the
sun’s plasma.
Photosphere and Chromosphere of the sun.
Corona of the sun.
Energetic particles of the sun.
What is Coronal Magnetometry?
The outermost layer of the sun is called Corona. The corona has
ionized plasma. These ions carry magnetic fields around them. This makes the
corona magnetic.
The study of the magnetic field in the corona of the sun is called
coronal magnetometry.
Major Payloads
In total Aditya-L1 has seven payloads, of which the primary
payload is the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC), designed and
fabricated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru.