The Aditya-1 solar mission launches hot on the heels of India's first moon landing.
The mission's observatory, called Aditya-L1 , has arrived at its launch site on the island of Sriharikota, on India's east coast, and is due to launch on Sept. 2, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation , India's national space agency.
While the sun has been studied for a long time, scientists are still puzzled by how its outermost atmospheric layer, known as the corona, gets so hot — about 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the sun's surface. Researchers know little about what exactly unfolds on the sun before it unleashes solar flares and huge plasma clouds called coronal mass ejections into space — and at times toward Earth — and how CMEs accelerate to tremendous speeds close to the sun's disk.
The observatory will ultimately head to a parking spot in space about 1 million miles from Earth, from where it will get an uninterrupted view of the sun. This cosmic outpost, called the Earth-sun Lagrange Point 1 or L1, is also home to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a project by NASA and the European Space Agency that has been keeping an eye on solar activity since 1996.
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