Aditya-L1 images: Aditya-L1 spacecraft, India's first solar mission, that is destined for the Sun-Earth L1 point has taken images of the earth and the moon. India's space agency- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released the selfie and images taken by the Aditya-L1 that has successfully performed the second earth-bound manoeuvre on Tuesday. Sharing a video on social media platform on 'X', the ISRO said, “"The earth and the moon as seen by the camera on-board Aditya-L1 on September 4.”

The ISRO, on September 2 launched the country's maiden solar mission -- Aditya-L1 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Saturday.  It carried seven different payloads to have a detailed study of the sun, four of which will observe the light from the sun and the other three will measure in-situ parameters of the plasma and magnetic fields. Aditya-L1 will be placed in a halo orbit around Lagrangian Point 1 (or L1), which is 1.5 million km away from the Earth in the direction of the sun. It is expected to cover the distance in four months' time.

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