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  NASA, ESA set to release first images from Solar Orbiter Mission

  Science | July 14, 2020 9:33 IST

  Following the February 9 launch, the Solar Orbiter had made its first close pass of the Sun in mid-June. The mission had turned on all 10 of its instruments together for the first time. This flyby captured the closest images ever taken of the Sun. 

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  Aditya-L1: India to launch first solar mission in 2020

  Science | June 13, 2019 17:49 IST

  India is to launch Aditya-L1, its first mission to study the sun, in 2020, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K. Sivan said.

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  Submit your name to go onboard NASA's new solar mission

  Science | March 30, 2018 20:29 IST

  The mission will travel through the Sun's atmosphere, facing brutal heat and radiation conditions -- and your name will go along for the ride. The submissions of names will be accepted until April 27, the US space agency said.

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  Kashmir's solar potential highest in India

  India | November 19, 2014 12:39 IST

  Bangalore: Which is a better place for locating a solar power plant? Hot and sunny Rajasthan or snow-clad Kashmir? If your answer is Rajasthan, you are wrong.A recent study by Indian researchers has identified the