India is turning its gaze from the moon to the sun. After launching Chandrayaan-2, India’s second lunar mission, in July 2019, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now planning a mission to the sun, Aditya-L1. This mission will be launched in the year 2023 and will be India’s first mission to the sun. This spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrangian point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth. The mission will aim to study the sun’s outermost atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind, which is a stream of charged particles released from the sun’s upper atmosphere. This mission will also carry a coronagraph on board, which will be used to study the solar corona and its associated magnetic fields.

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source: Phys.org