Aditya-L1 Provides New Insights on Earth’s Magnetic Shield
On 10th January 2026, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said its Aditya-L1 solar mission has provided important new insights into how powerful solar storms disturb Earth’s magnetic shield, also known as the magnetosphere.
Aditya-L1: Position and Scientific Focus
- Aditya-L1 is India’s first dedicated solar observatory.
- It is positioned at the Lagrange Point-1 (L1), about 1.5 million km from Earth, where the gravitational forces of the Earth and Sun balance.
- From this stable location, the spacecraft gets a continuous, uninterrupted view of the Sun.
- Its main objective is to study:
- Solar flares
- Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
- Solar wind and plasma behaviour
- Sun-Earth interactions that drive space weather
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Related Content
- 1 Nitrofurans
- 2 Cyber Slavery
- 3 Ghost Pairing
- 4 GPS Spoofing
- 5 Navy Receives Taragiri Stealth Frigate
- 6 Hansa-3 (NG) Trainer Aircraft & SARAS Mk-2 Programme
- 7 Key Gene Mutations Driving Oral Cancer in Women Identified
- 8 Life-Essential Sugars Detected in Asteroid Bennu Samples
- 9 Niger Eliminates Onchocerciasis
- 10 JWST Detects Oldest Supernova Ever Observed
- 1 Why a ‘Cosmic Dust Particle’ Hits Earth Every 16 Minutes
- 2 India’s First Commercial Earth Observation Satellite Constellation
- 3 Salvo Test of ‘Pralay’ Missile
- 4 DRDO Successfully Tests Indigenous MPATGM
- 5 Indian Army Signs Deal for ‘Suryastra’
- 6 LR-AShM at Republic Day Parade
- 7 DRDO’s Long-Duration Scramjet Test
- 8 BSL-4 Containment Facility in Gandhinagar
- 9 China’s EAST Reactor Breaks a Key Fusion Barrier
- 10 Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Technology: How It Works and Why It Matters
- 11 ISRO’s PSLV-C62 Mission Suffers Anomaly
- 12 AI Tool ‘Disobind’ to Decode Elusive Protein Interactions
- 13 Dhruv-NG Helicopter
- 14 India Ranks 8th Globally in WHO Pharmacovigilance Contributions
- 15 IIT Madras Develops Ramjet-Powered Artillery Shells
- 16 PARAM Shakti Supercomputer Commissioned at IIT Madras
- 17 World-Class Environmental and Solar Metrology Facilities at CSIR-NPL
- 18 Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi)
- 19 Wolf Supermoon
- 20 Mpemba Effect
- 21 White Dwarf System
