Ahead of the launch of India’s maiden solar mission Aditya-L1, former ISRO scientist Tapan Misra said that it is an important project to study solar flares and the solar wind which affect the weather.
Tapan Misra said, “The project should have been launched in 2015 and it is already delayed. There is an 11-year cycle of the solar wind. This solar wind when it goes up creates a disturbance in the satellite communications and even the electrical distribution system on the ground. And it affects the weather because as the solar flares increase, more is the sun’s surface temperature. When the solar flares are less the sun’s temperature is also less and correspondingly the weather also changes.” (ANI)
