Chennai: India's first solar exploratory mission spacecraft Aditya-L1, which is continuing its journey to land at the sun-earth L1 point, has captured the first glimpse of solar flares.
ISRO on Wednesday said the solar flares were captured by the L1-Orbiting X-ray spectrometer--HELIOS.
"During its first observation period from approximately 12:00 to 22:00 UT on October 29, 2023, the High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS) on board Aditya-L1 has recorded the impulsive phase of solar flares", the Space Agency said in an upadate.
"The recorded data is consistent with the X-ray light curves provided by NOAA's GOES."
"Commissioned on October 27, 2023, HEL1OS is currently undergoing fine-tuning of thresholds and calibration operations. The instrument is set to monitor the Sun's high-energy X-ray activity with fast timing and high-resolution spectra", ISRO said.
"HEL1OS data enables researchers to study explosive energy release and electron acceleration during impulsive phases of solar flares" it added.
Aditya-L1 Mission:
HEL1OS captures first High-Energy X-ray glimpse of Solar Flares