"India's Solar Probe Analyzes Earth's Particle Environment"

India's Aditya-L1 mission, launched on September 2, has begun collecting data on particles surrounding Earth using its Supra Thermal & Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS) instrument. The spacecraft, headed towards the Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1, will observe the origin, acceleration, and anisotropy of solar wind and space weather phenomena. Aditya-L1 carries seven science instruments, four of which will study the Sun directly, while the remaining three will measure particles at the Lagrange Point 1 to understand the effects of solar dynamics in the interplanetary medium. This marks India's first attempt to study the Sun and better understand space weather.