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Indias Aditya-L1 space probe took a selfie and images of Earth and the Moon while on its way to Lagrange Point 1. | Latest News India

ISRO has hibernated Chandrayaan-3’s lander and rover for the next two weeks, hoping to reawakening them for another lunar day of experiments.

Scientifically speaking, a Lagrange point is a spot where the gravitational forces of two large objects, such as the sun and the earth, cancel each other out, allowing a spacecraft to “hover”.

The Vikram lander elevated itself by about 40 centimetres, and landed safely 30-40 centimetres away in a ‘hop experiment’, ISRO said.

Following quickly on the success of India's moon landing, the country's space agency launched a rocket to study the sun.

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In his weekly column, Sethu Pradeep writes about ISRO’s Aditya L1, the European Space Agency’s helping hand and NASA’s ambitious asteroid sample mission.

ISRO Aditya L1 Mission: The country's first solar mission--Aditya L1 set off on a 125-day journey to the Sun in its attempt to study various elements relating to Earth's nearest star

Indias workhorse rocket PSLV successfully put its Aditya-L1 spacecraft to study the Sun into an intermediate orbit or low earth orbit on Saturday afternoon in textbook style.

India is about 40 years behind in the matter of sending missions to study the sun