Moon's no limit! Isro's solar mission launch on Sept 2

Bengaluru: After the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission, ISRO on Monday announced the launch of Aditya-L1 spacecraft to study the Sun on September 2 at 11.50 am from the Sriharikota spaceport.

Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed for providing remote observations of the solar corona and in-situ observations of the solar wind at L1 (Sun-Earth Lagrangian point), which is about 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth.

It will be the first Indian space mission for observations of the Sun. The space agency said in a social media post that the spacecraft -- the first spacebased Indian observatory to study the Sun -- would be launched by PSLV-C57 rocket.

The Aditya-L1 mission, aimed at studying the Sun from an orbit around the L1, would carry seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the outermost layers of the Sun, the corona.

Chandrayaan-3 rover comes across crater on lunar surface, commanded to retrace path

Chandrayaan-3 mission's rover 'Pragyan' was commanded to retrace its path after it came across a crater just metres ahead of its location on the lunar surface, Isro said on Monday.

It's now safely heading on a new path, the Bengaluruheadquartered national space agency said in a social media post.

Isro said that on August 27 the rover came across a four-metre diameter crater which was three metres ahead of its location. (PTI)