SUIT Telescope on board Aditya-L1 observes Solar Flare, rare plasma ejection in UV light

Chennai, May 14 -- ISRO on Wednesday announced that the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) onboard Aditya-L1 Mission observed powerful SolarFlare and a first of its kind Rare Plasma ejection in Ultra-Violet Light.

On December 31, 2023, the Aditya-L1 mission witnessed the Sun unleashing an enormous solar flare (an X-class solar flare) that hurled a glowing plasma 'blob' off the sun.

Cameras aboard the SUIT payload of Aditya-L1 watched the rare ejection of plasma blob move from a leisurely 300 km per second speed to a blistering speed of 1500 km per second- with this speed one can circle the entire earth in half a minute.

This was for the first time; such an eruption is caught in near-ultraviolet light which offers scientist a n...