By Vivek Dubey
CNBC-TV18.com
Published June 06, 2024
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s Aditya-L1’s payloads capture a series of solar flares from AR13664, providing valuable data on solar activity.
Active region AR13664 on the Sun erupted several X-class and M-class flares during May 8-15, 2024, causing a major geomagnetic storm on May 11, 2024.
Two remote sensing payloads on Aditya-L1 captured these events during May 8-9, 2024, while two in-situ payloads captured this event during May 10-11, 2024.
The Solar Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) on Aditya-L1 captured Sun images on May 17, 2024, showing bright, active regions on the Solar disk.
Figures 1 and 2 show the Sun in Mg II k and h lines respectively, signifying magnetically active regions on the Sun’s surface where large solar flares may originate.
Figures 3 and 4 show the Sun in Narrow Band 276 nm and 283 nm respectively, displaying the sunspots in the active regions and the plages around them.
Figures 5 and 6 show the Sun in Narrow Band 300 nm and Broad Band 320-360 nm respectively, revealing the sunspots in the active regions and the plage region around them.
The Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) carried out observations in one of the spectroscopic channels for the emission line 5303 Angstrom on May 14, 2024.