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The moon is not the limit! Now India is getting ready to study the sun

  • August 28, 2023
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Just over a week after the probe successfully landed on the lunar south pole, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced that will launch its first space mission

The moon is not the limit!  Now India is getting ready to study the sun

Just over a week after the probe successfully landed on the lunar south pole, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced that will launch its first space mission to study the Sun next Saturday, September 2, with the aim of launch a satellite into solar orbit.

“The launch of Aditya-L1, India’s first space observatory to study the Sun, is scheduled for September 2, 2023 at 11:50 local time (6:20 GMT),” ISRO said in a statement. X, formerly known as Twitter.

launch will be held at the center of the Indian Space Agency in Sriharikota, in the south of the Asian country.

Photo: ISRO Twitter

Aditya-L1 has its main goals study the dynamics of the upper layers of the solar atmosphere and the formation of solar winds, among other things, placing the probe in an orbit 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.

“This will provide additional benefits in observing solar activity and its impact on space weather in real time,” ISRO said.

The new space mission will take place less than a week after the probe’s historic landing in space. uncharted south pole of the moonas part of the ISRO Chandrayaan-3 mission, making India the first country to reach the southernmost part of the moon.

Photo: Quartoscuro Archive

Chandrayan-3 it took him 40 days to travel since it took off on July 14 with India’s largest and heaviest launch vehicle.

Interest in this area is associated with suspected south polar water ice reservoirs, which could support human outposts and supply fuel to spaceships bound for Mars and other remote places. This is the goal of future manned missions of the program. Artemis belonging POT.

(according to information from EFE And Europe Press)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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