{"id":38281,"date":"2025-03-01T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T13:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=38281"},"modified":"2025-04-16T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:04:06","slug":"aditya-l1-captures-solar-flare-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/01-03-2025\/aditya-l1-captures-solar-flare-details","title":{"rendered":"Aditya-L1 Captures Unprecedented Solar Flare Details"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus :GS 3\/Space&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/blog\/aditya-l1-mission\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/blog\/aditya-l1-mission\/\"><strong>Aditya-L1<\/strong><\/a> has made a significant discovery by capturing the <strong>first-ever image of a solar flare &#8216;kernel&#8217;<\/strong> in the lower solar atmosphere <strong>(photosphere and chromosphere).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Aditya-L1<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It was launched in September 2023, by ISRO\u2019s PSLV C-57 rocket.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was placed in a halo orbit around the<strong> Earth-Sun Lagrange Point (L1) <\/strong>in January&nbsp; <strong>2024.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is India&#8217;s first dedicated space-based solar mission.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It stays approximately 1.5 million km away from Earth, directed towards the Sun, which is about 1% of the Earth-Sun distance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It would study the outer atmosphere of the Sun.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&nbsp;It will neither land on the Sun nor approach the Sun any closer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ebecf0\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Do you know?<\/strong><br>&#8211; &#8220;Aditya&#8221; means the Sun in Sanskrit, and &#8220;L1&#8221; refers to Lagrange Point 1 in the Sun-Earth system.&nbsp;<br>&#8211; L1 is a location in space where the <strong>gravitational forces of the Sun and Earth are in equilibrium<\/strong>, allowing objects placed there to remain stable relative to both celestial bodies.<br>&#8211; The L1 point allows the spacecraft to continuously observe solar activities without any eclipse or occultation.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Scientific payloads<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The<strong> Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT):<\/strong> It captures high-resolution images in 11 different NUV bands, enabling the study of multiple solar layers.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS),<\/strong> and <strong>High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS)<\/strong> monitor <strong>solar X-ray emissions <\/strong>to detect flare activity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Importance&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A significant revelation is the correlation between localized brightening in the lower atmosphere and an increase in plasma temperature in the solar corona, validating long-standing theories about solar flare physics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fff2cc\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>A solar flare<\/strong><br>&#8211; It&nbsp; is a sudden, intense burst of energy from the Sun&#8217;s atmosphere, caused by the dynamic nature of the Sun&#8217;s magnetic field.&nbsp;<br>&#8211; When the magnetic field snaps, it releases a powerful burst of energy in the form of light, radiation, and high-energy charged particles.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source :TH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aditya-L1 has made a significant discovery by capturing the first-ever image of a solar flare &#8216;kernel&#8217; in the lower solar atmosphere (photosphere and chromosphere).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41275,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38281\/revisions\/41275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}