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Kolkata:

ISRO chief S Somnath said on Sunday that the major space research agency’s Aditya L1 solar mission is continuously sending data about the sun.

Talking to reporters here, Mr Somnath said multiple instruments on the spacecraft are working continuously to provide data on many aspects.

“We’re looking at the Sun in a continuum — ultraviolet magnetic charge observations, coronogram observations, X-ray observations, and so on,” he said.

India’s first solar mission spacecraft, the Aditya-L1 spacecraft, was launched on September 2, 2023.

“Because we keep this satellite for five years, the observations will be analyzed as a long-term measure. It’s not like your instant news where one thing about the sun is reported today and something else happens tomorrow, every other period Something happens in a day.

All observations will be made now, but the results will not be known until later, he said.

“A solar eclipse occurs when the sun is obscured by the moon. Nothing happens inside the sun during an eclipse. But obviously our mission also includes collecting data about the sun before, during and after the eclipse,” Somnath Mr. Said in response to a question about whether the mission would illuminate the eclipse.

Talking about collaboration with other space agencies, he said ISRO is building a joint satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar).

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