The Total Solar Eclipse is happening on April 8 ,2024 when the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up, causing daytime darkness. India’s Aditya L1 probe will watch the Sun as the Moon covers it, making parts of North America briefly dark.
Aditya L1,launched by ISRO in 2023 has six tools to study the Sun from a spot called Lagrange Point 1, about 15 kilometers away. Two of these tools, the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) and the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT), could observe the Sun during the eclipse. VELC studies the Sun’s outer layer, while SUIT takes images in near ultraviolet.
During the eclipse, the Sun’s outer layer, the corona, becomes visible as the Moon blocks the Sun’s disk, revealing the bright layers. Normally, we can’t see the corona from Earth.
Professor Durgesh Tripathi from IUCAA said they plan to use Aditya L1’s SUIT instrument to observe the Sun during the eclipse. The spacecraft reached Lagrange Point 1 this year after leaving Earth in 2023. It’s now observing the Sun.
In February, Aditya-L1 detected the first impact of solar wind from Coronal Mass Ejections using the Plasma Analyser Package (Papa) payload. The magnetometer boom was deployed in January.
Aditya-L1’s goal is to learn more about the Sun’s corona, photosphere, and the effects of solar winds. Its instruments have been tested during its journey and are working well.
Europe’s Solar Orbiter will also observe the Sun during the eclipse, providing a different perspective. This rare event gives astronomers a chance to learn more about the Sun’s behavior using both ground-based telescopes and space probes
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