{"id":61324,"date":"2025-12-11T18:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=61324"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:50:30","slug":"aditya-l1-solar-storm-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/11-12-2025\/aditya-l1-solar-storm-study","title":{"rendered":"Aditya-L1 Joins Global Effort To Study the Solar Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/ Science and Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>India\u2019s solar observatory Aditya-L1<\/strong> along with six U.S. satellites, has revealed unusual behaviour of the May 2024 solar storm called <strong>\u201cGannon\u2019s storm\u201d <\/strong>triggered by a series of giant explosions on the <strong>Sun known<\/strong> as <strong>Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is a Solar Storm?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The solar storm is composed of a series of <strong>giant explosions <\/strong>on the Sun, known as <strong>coronal mass ejections (CMEs).\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A CME is like a massive bubble of hot gas and magnetic energy thrown out from the Sun into space.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When these bubbles hit Earth, they can shake earth&#8217;s magnetic shield and cause serious trouble for satellites, communication systems, GPS, and even power grids.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"a22b0a\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-76-1024x768.png\" alt=\"solar storm\" class=\"not-transparent wp-image-61325\" style=\"--dominant-color: #a22b0a; width:419px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-76-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-76-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-76-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-76-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-76.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Aditya-L1<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Aditya-L1<\/strong> is the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was launched on September 2, 2023 by the <strong>PSLV-C57, <\/strong>and was inserted in its <strong>targeted halo orbit on January 6, 2024.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The solar observatory is placed at Lagrangian point <strong>L1<\/strong> for \u201cObserving and understanding the chromospheric and coronal dynamics of the Sun\u201d in a continuous manner.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>It is equipped with seven payloads<\/strong> (instruments) on board with four of them carrying out remote sensing of the Sun and three of them carrying in-situ observation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-background has-fixed-layout\" style=\"background-color:#fff2cc\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Do you Know?<\/strong><br><br>&#8211; <strong>Lagrange points<\/strong> are positions in space where objects sent there tend to stay put. At Lagrange points, the gravitational pull of two large masses precisely equals the centripetal force required for a small object to move with them.&nbsp;<br>&#8211; There are <strong>five Lagrange points, three are unstable and two are stable<\/strong>. The unstable Lagrange points are labeled L1, L2 and L3. The stable Lagrange points are labele<strong>d L4 and L5.<\/strong><br>&#8211; <strong>The L1 point <\/strong>of the Earth-Sun system affords an uninterrupted view of the sun and is currently home to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Satellite SOHO.<br>&#8211; These points in space can be used by spacecraft to reduce fuel consumption needed to remain in position.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"266\" height=\"219\" src=\"blob:https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/e3e53cf3-4da3-4e93-af54-4c3ab6e922a6\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/aditya-l1-in-a-global-effort-reveals-why-the-2024-solar-storm-behaved-unusually\/article70376131.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">India\u2019s solar observatory Aditya-L1 along with six U.S. satellites, has revealed unusual behaviour of the May 2024 solar storm called \u201cGannon\u2019s storm\u201d triggered by a series of giant explosions on the Sun known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs).<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a Solar Storm?<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">The solar storm is composed of a series of giant explosions on the Sun, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs).\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">A CME is like a massive bubble of hot gas and magnetic energy thrown out from the Sun into space.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">When these bubbles hit Earth, they can shake earth&#8217;s magnetic shield and cause serious trouble for satellites, communication systems, GPS, and even power grids.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/11-12-2025\/aditya-l1-solar-storm-study\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-61324","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\/61324","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61562,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61324\/revisions\/61562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}