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Aditya-L1 Mission Captures Solar Flare
- 03 Mar 2025
- 1 min read
The Aditya-L1 mission has captured the first-ever image of a solar flare 'kernel' in the lower solar atmosphere using the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) payload.
- Solar Observation: SUIT detected an X6.3-class solar flare, one of the most intense solar eruptions, in the Near Ultraviolet (NUV) wavelength (200-400 nm).
- Solar Flares: Solar flares are massive explosions on the Sun’s atmosphere that release energy, light, and high-speed particles into space, often linked to coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
- Solar flares are classified into A, B, C, M, and X categories, with each class increasing 10-fold in energy. X-class flares are the most powerful.
- Aditya-L1: It is India's first space-based solar observatory, designed to study the Sun from the Lagrange Point 1 (L1) in a halo orbit. This is ISRO’s second astronomy observatory-class mission after AstroSat (2015).
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