ISRO next journey to Sun- Aditya L1 mission

 

Following the success of Chandrayaan-3, it has been announced that the Aditya L1 spacecraft will be launched on September 2 to study the Sun.🌞

Even after the success of Chandrayaan 3, ISRO has announced the operational date of its next mega project. While Aditya L1 was already announced as an attempt to explore the Sun, ISRO has announced that it will be launched on September 2.🌞

Aditya means Sun in Hindi. This name is given if the sun is to be explored. Moon in layman's language is a mild star. But the sun is not like that! Is it possible to travel to the sun!. How can it get close to the sun with a core surface temperature of 15 lakh degrees Celsius when the material melts in the sun itself?🔥

Aditya L1- mission 

Aditya is not like Chandrayaan. Does not land directly on the sun. It will probe the surface of the Sun by stopping at a point between the Sun and the Earth. There is also a problem with that. It should not be pulled in by the Sun's gravity, which is why they keep it at the Lagrangian point. At this point, the gravitational force of the Earth and the gravitational force of the Sun are zero. Thus the points of 0 gravity between the two spheres are five in total. Those five are called Lejrangian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The first point is between the Sun and the Earth. It is in this that Aditya is going to stay and engage in research. Hence it is named Aditya L-1.🌄

How many days will this trip take? The Sun is 15 crore kilometres away from Earth. In which the first Lagrangian point is one and a half million kilometres from the Sun. Due to the long distance, the journey is assumed to take four months from the date of launch. The spacecraft will be able to study solar storms, Earth changes, photosphere and chromosphere and send information back to Earth. Also, the main objective is to study the Sun's outer layer and near-ultraviolet radiation. ISRO is conducting continuous observations of the Sun to detect and mitigate the impact of solar storms coming towards the Earth.

 India becomes the fourth country 👍to engage in solar research, with the US, Russia and the European Agency already sending spacecraft here.