THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK
New Delhi, Sept 7: India’s first mission to study the Sun, Aditya-L1, has taken images of itself as well as the Earth and the distant moon from the highly elliptical orbit around the Earth where it is currently present. “Onlooker! Aditya-L1, destined for the Sun-Earth L1 point, takes a selfie and images of the Earth and the Moon,” the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday morning, reports The Indian Express.
The video posted by the space agency shows an image of a portion of the spacecraft captured by its onboard camera, showing two of the main science experiments being carried out by the mission. It shows the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) that will study the solar corona including the very inner layers that have not been studied by other missions and the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) that will study the different layers of the solar atmosphere in the shorter UV wavelengths that are not possible to detect from Earth.
