Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC)
- It is the primary payload of Aditya-L1 Mission - India’s first mission to observe the Sun from a vantage point 1.5 million kilometres from the earth.
- It is designed to study various aspects of the sun like its atmosphere, solar wind acceleration and the origin of coronal mass ejection.
- VELC can image the solar corona down to 1.05 times the solar radius, which is the closest any such payload has imaged.
- It can do imaging, spectroscopy and polarimetry at the same time, and can take observations at a very high ....
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