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Aditya-L1: SUIT And VELC Payloads Capture Spectacular Images Of Sun After Major Solar Storms. Know More
Aditya-L1: On May 14, the doors of SUIT and VELC were opened, after their operations were complete. Then, they captured spectacular images of the Sun. They took images of sunspots and active regions.

Aditya-L1's SUIT and VELC payloads captured spectacular images of the Sun after May 14. SUIT observed the Sun at wavelengths 283 (top left), 276 (top centre), 300 (top right), 280 (bottom left) and 279 (bottom right) nm. VELC observed the solar corona at 5303 Angstrom (bottom centre).
Source : ISRO
Aditya-L1, India's first space-based solar observatory to study the Sun, has captured solar events such as the solar flares from May 8 to May 9, 2024, the subsequent geomagnetic storm on May 11, and images of sunspots and active regions a few days after the storms were over. The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) and Visible Emissions Line Coronagraph (VELC) payloads on the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO's) solar spacecraft were in baking mode (to get rid of contaminants) and
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Prosenjit NathThe writer is a technocrat, political analyst, and author.
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