- Solar Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) and Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) payloads aboard India’s maiden solar mission, Aditya-L1, have captured images of the sun and its dynamic activities during the solar storm, which occurred in May.
- Several X-class and M-class flares erupted in the active region AR13664 on the sun. This was associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
- The ISRO released six images of the sun taken by the SUIT payload at different wavelengths.
- According to the ISRO, these images will help in
- Studying solar flares
- Energy distribution and sunspots
- Understanding and predicting space weather
- Monitoring solar activity and UV radiation over a wide wavelength range
- Aid in the study of long-term solar variations.
- In addition, the VELC payload also carried out observations in one of the spectroscopic channels for the emission line 5303 Angstrom.
- Raster scans of the solar corona were carried out to capture the coronal activities in this particular spectral line.
- Two other remote sensing payloads, SoLEXS and HEL1OS, captured CME events.
- The two in-situ payloads, ASPEX and MAG, captured CMEs during their passage through the sun-earth L1 point (L1).
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