India’s solar mission Aditya-L1 takes selfie, sends pictures of Earth & Moon

By Jagadananda Pradhan
NEW DELHI: ISRO has launched its first solar mission Aditya L1 few days back. Meanwhile,Aditya L1 has captured a photo of Earth and Moon in the middle of reaching the L1 point of its solar mission. ISRO has shared this photo on 'X'. While sharing this photo, ISRO has written that Aditya L1 has taken a selfie with the Earth and the Moon in the middle of its journey to the Sun's L1 point. In the photo shared by ISRO, a large part of the Earth is visible while the Moon is on the right side in this photo.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) had launched the solar mission on September 2. Earlier, ISRO had created history by successfully landing Chandrayaan 3 on the Moon. After the successful launch of this rocket, ISRO had said that the Aditya-L1 vehicle has successfully separated from the PSLV rocket. This mission of India will help in unveiling the mysteries related to the Sun.

According to scientists, there are five 'Lagrangian' points (or parking areas) between the Earth and the Sun, upon reaching which an object stops there. Lagrange points are named after the Italian-French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange for his prize-winning research paper 'Essay sur le probleme des trois corps, 1772'.

ISRO officials had said that as the 23.40 hour countdown ended, the 44.4 meter long Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) lifted off spectacularly into the sky at the scheduled time of 11.50 am from the space center at Sriharikota, about 135 km from Chennai. had left.

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