The head of ISRO, S Somnath, stated on Sunday that data about the Sun is being sent continuously by the premier space research agency’s Aditya L I solar mission.
Speaking to reporters here following his receipt of a special award from jewelry manufacturer P C Chandra Group, S Somnath stated that a number of the spacecraft’s instruments are continuously operating to provide data on a variety of topics.
“We are looking into the sun in a continuous manner – UV magnetic charges observation, corona graph observation, X-ray observation and other things,” he said.
India’s first solar mission craft, the Aditya-L1 spacecraft was launched on September 2, 2023.
“As we are keeping this satellite for five years, the observation will be analysed as a long-term measure. It is not like your instant news that something has been reported about the sun today, something else will happen tomorrow, things will happen every day,” he explained.
All observations will happen now but the results will be known later, he said.
“Eclipse happens as the sun is blocked by the moon. It is not like that anything happens within the sun during an eclipse. But obviously, our mission is also collecting data about the sun before, during and after an eclipse, Somnath said, while answering a question on whether the mission will throw light on the solar eclipse.
Speaking about collaborations with other space agencies, he said ISRO is building a joint satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar).
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