Aditya L1 sends selfie ; ISRO shares images. (image @ISRO)
India”s maiden Solar Mission Aditya L1 has taken selfie of itself, and then photos of Earth and Moon while it is on its 125 day long journey to Lagrange point 1 (L1). The on-board camera has captured images of one hemisphere of Earth embellished by Light rays from Sun, a tiny speck far behind which is claimed to be Moon and Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) and Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUIT) instrument of its own.
The images are shared by ISRO on it X (formerly Twitter) page.
Aditya-L1 Mission:
👀Onlooker!Aditya-L1,
destined for the Sun-Earth L1 point,
takes a selfie and
images of the Earth and the Moon.#AdityaL1 pic.twitter.com/54KxrfYSwy— ISRO (@isro) September 7, 2023
Aditya L1 needs to travel 1.5 million km to reach Lagrange point 1, which is expected to cover within 4 months.
The L1 point will aid the spacecraft watch Sun without any interruption and to understand what the Sun is doing and how it affects space weather in real time.
Aditya L1 shoulder grandiose goals that could provide more insights on origin, composition and dynamics of the solar wind which determines the solar weather. The goals include gathering information on what heats the upper layer and triggers solar phenomena like flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and unfurl events that happen over multiple layers of Sun such as chromosphere, the base and extended corona.
