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Detailed explanation-1: -Aditya-L1 is India’s first space-based Indian mission to study the Sun. As per the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), the spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit around the first Lagrange (L1) point of the Sun-Earth system, which is about 1.5-million-km from Earth.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aditya L1 Mission is the first Indian space mission to study the Sun. The ISRO is planning to launch the Aditya L1 to observe the Sun in the year 2023. Aditya L1 Missio was conceived by the Advisory Committee for Space Research in January 2008.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aditya L1 will study the Sun’s corona, Sun’s photosphere, chromosphere, solar emissions, solar winds and flares, and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), and will carry out round-the-clock imaging of the Sun. The mission will be launched by ISRO to the L1 orbit which is about 1.5 million km from the Earth.

Detailed explanation-4: -ISRO is planning to launch the Aditya-L1 mission, the first Indian space mission to observe the Sun by June/July 2023.

Detailed explanation-5: -Objective: Aditya L1 will study the Sun’s corona (Visible and Near infrared rays), Sun’s photosphere (soft and hard X-ray), chromosphere (Ultra Violet ), solar emissions, solar winds and flares, and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), and will carry out round-the-clock imaging of the Sun.