Into the Inferno: A Daring Mission to the Sun

Aditya L-1

Aditya will do research by going 15 lakh kilometers.

ISRO will be doing Surya Sadhana from tomorrow.

INDIA’s first Sun Mission ‘Aditya L-1’ will be launched from Sriharikota on Saturday 02/09/2023 at 11:50 am. Like Chandrayaan-3, it will move in an elliptical orbit and reach the Lagrange point (L-1) in the first week of January 2024. America had sent the most expensive project ever for Sun. NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe in 2018. It touched the outer surface of the Sun in December 2021.

Aditya-L1

LAGRANGE (L-1)

Here the Sun will be continuously visible from this orbit. The force of gravity will be equal.

At this point, the satellite of NASA and the European Agency have been studying the Sun since 1996.

Sun is 15 crore kilometers away from us.

7 Payloads in Aditya L-1

These payloads will study the photosphere, chromosphere and outer surface.

4 payloads will collect data on flames. An instrument will measure solar radiation.

The magnetometer will measure the magnetic field.

The Sun is 109 times bigger than the Earth

The temperature inside the Sun is 14.99 lakh degrees, while the outside is 5507 degrees Celsius.

It is 460 crore years old. Its light reaches the earth in 8.3 minutes.

Gravitational force is 27 times that of Earth.

Cheapest: Aditya’s cost 400 crores, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was Rs 12,300 crores.

How many so far: 25 missions have been sent from around the world. Currently, only 7 are active.