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Headline: India successfully launches first spacecraft Aditya L1 to the Sun

Caption: Aditya L1, India's first-ever solar mission, was launched by the ISRO on Saturday at SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The spacecraft will be positioned within a “halo orbit'' around Lagrange point 1 (L1) in the Sun-Earth system, located approximately 1.5 million km away from Earth. Study will be conducted of chromospheric and coronal heating, physics of the partially ionized plasma, initiation of the coronal mass ejections, and flares.

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