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What is the Sun's corona?
The corona is the Sun's outermost atmosphere, extending millions of kilometres into space. It's usually only visible during a total solar eclipse. The Aditya-L1 mission is specifically studying the corona's mysteries, like why it's so much hotter than the Sun's surface, a long-standing puzzle for scientists.
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