Aditya-L1 Mission Captures Solar Flare | 03 Mar 2025

Source: TH 

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).