Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC)

It is the primary payload of Aditya-L1 Mission - India’s first mission to observe the Sun from a vantage point 1.5 million kilometres from the earth.

• It is designed to study various aspects of the sun like its atmosphere, solar wind acceleration and the origin of coronal mass ejection.
• VELC can image the solar corona down to 1.05 times the solar radius, which is the closest any such payload has imaged.
• It can do imaging, spectroscopy and polarimetry at the same time, and can take observations at a very high resolution.