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New Delhi: After a successful lunar landing of Vikram Lander on 23 August as part of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch its first solar mission, Aditya-L1, Saturday that will allow India to take a closer look at the Suns surface and understand its effect on Earth...
Its main objective is to observe the solar atmosphere using its seven payloads..
In October 2006, as part of the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, two nearly identical spacecraft were launched into orbits around the Sun, which caused them to respectively pull farther ahead of and fall gradually behind the Earth..
JAXA followed up with other missions, such as Yohkoh (SOLAR-A) in 1991, SOHO in 1995, and Transient Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) in 1998, which was launched in cooperation with NASA...
ESA has also contributed to solar exploration, with missions such as Ulysses, which was launched in 1990 to study the space environment above and below the poles of the Sun...
