THE WORLD AWAITS DATA FROM ADITYA-LI

THE Indian Space Research Organisation's first Sun-observing mission, Aditya-L1, completed its first halo orbit around Lagrange Point-1 (L-1) on Tuesday, 178 days after being inserted into orbit.

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This is a significant indicator of the continued success of Aditya-Ll's intended five-year mission and more. The mission's key objectives are to better understand coronal heating, coronal mass ejections, solar wind acceleration and distribution, solar flares and near-Earth space weather, dynamics of solar atmosphere, and temperature magnitude variations. All these are crucial as studies for the protection of near-Earth systems-like satellites and space stationsas well as terrestrial-based ones-like power grids-that can get adversely affected when massive solar flares hit Earth.