Getty ImagesScientists in India have reported the “first significant result” from Aditya-L1, the country’s first solar observation mission in space.
The new learnings, they said, could help keep power grids and communication satellites out of harm’s way the next time solar activities threatened infrastructure on Earth and space.
On 16 July, the most important of the seven scientific instruments Aditya-L1 is carrying – Visible Emission Line Coronagraph, or Velc – captured data that helped scientists estimate the precise time a coronal mass ejection (CME) began.
Studying CMEs – massive fireballs that blow out of the Sun’s outermost corona layer –…
