After the successful landing of India on the moon by the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, the Indian Space Agency is scheduled to launch, on Saturday, a rocket to study the sun.
India’s first space solar probe aims to study the solar wind, which can cause disturbances on Earth.
The probe was named “Aditya-L1”, taken from the Hindi word for sun, and the rocket is scheduled to lift off at 1150 am (0620 GMT).
The solar mission comes after India overtook Russia late last month to become the first country to land on the moon’s south pole.
While Russia had a more powerful craft, India’s Chandrayaan-3 outperformed Russia’s Luna-25 and performed a typical landing.
The Aditya-L1 probe is designed so that it can travel a distance of about 1.5 million kilometers over four months and reach a kind of parking lot in space where things tend to stay in place due to the balance of gravity forces, which reduces the spacecraft’s fuel consumption. .
These areas are called Lagrange points, named after the Italian-French mathematician, Joseph Louis Lagrange.
Scientists from the Indian Space Research Organization said the long-term data from the mission could help them better understand the sun’s influence on Earth’s climate patterns and the origin of the solar wind, a stream of particles that flows from the sun through the solar system.
2023-09-02 10:35:44
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