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What is Aditya-L1?
Aditya-L1 is India's first dedicated mission to study the Sun. It's positioned at a special point in space that allows it to continuously observe the Sun without being blocked by Earth. Its recent findings are helping us understand how the Sun's corona gets and maintains its incredibly high temperatures.
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