Aditya-L1, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released the second set of scientific data from the Aditya-L1 solar mission.
“The datasets comprise valuable scientific information about the Sun’s photosphere, chromosphere and its outer atmosphere (corona) along with the in-situ particles and magnetic field measurements at first Earth-Sun Lagrange Point L1,” ISRO said.
Accessible on website
The Aditya L1 datasets will be accessible from the website of the Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) portal.
To access the Aditya-L1 data via ISSDC website, one has to visit https://www.issdc.gov.in/adityal1.html, navigate to data download section. Data may be accessed directly on PRADAN portal links https://pradan.issdc.gov.in/al1 or https://pradan1.issdc.gov.in/al1. “ISRO encourages the community of researchers and students to utilise these datasets. The user manuals to analyse Aditya-L1 payload data are also available on the above web address after registration,” ISRO said.
The maiden datasets from Aditya-L1 were released by ISRO on January 6, and a national meet was organised.
Aditya-L1, at present, is observing the Sun during its third revolution in the Halo orbit around Lagrange Point (L1).
The Aditya-L1 mission was launched on September 2, 2023 by ISRO onboard the PSLV C-57 rocket. On January 6, 2024, the spacecraft was successfully placed in a large halo orbit around first Earth-Sun Lagrange Point known as Lagrange Point (L1). The L1 point is 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth towards the Sun.
Published – March 03, 2025 10:53 pm IST
