The latest mission in India's ambitious space program blasted off Saturday on a voyage towards the center of the solar system, a week after the country's successful unmanned moon landing.
showing hundreds of spectators cheering wildly against the deafening noise of the rocket's ascent.as the vessel made its way to the upper reaches of the Earth's atmosphere.to observe the sun's outermost layers in a four-month journey.
These bursts are so powerful they can reach the Earth and potentially disrupt the operations of satellites. Aditya, the name of the Hindu Sun deity, will travel 1.5 million kilometers to reach its destination—still only one percent of the vast distance between Earth and the sun. The mission also aims to shed light on the dynamics of several other solar phenomena by imaging and measuring particles in the sun's upper atmosphere.India has been steadily matching the achievements of established spacefaring powers at a fraction of their cost.
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