India’s First Solar Mission: How Close Will It Get to the Sun? Find Out
On September 2, 2023, India launched Aditya-L1, its first solar observatory in space. This spacecraft will be positioned very far away, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth and about 148.5 million kilometers from the Sun. To put that in perspective, the distance between the Sun and Earth is about 150 million kilometers. So, Aditya-L1 will be placed at a spot that’s just one percent of the distance between the Sun and Earth. This is a significant step by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to study the Sun and its activities from a unique vantage point in space.
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