#BREAKING : Indian Space Research Organisation [#ISRO], which already has a network of tracking stations, has completed survey & radiation studies at Fiji Islands for a temporary station being designed specifically for India's first Solar mission (Aditya-L1).
Fiji Islands is one of the options being explored to support the launch of #Aditya-L1 1, India’s first observatory-class space-based solar mission wherein the spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit around the first Lagrange point (L1) of the Sun-Earth system.
Accdg to ISRO, a satellite around L1 point has the major advtg of continuously viewing Sun without eclipses as the position provides a advantage of observing solar activities.
- Aditya will carry 7 payloads to observe photosphere, chromosphere & the outermost layers of the Sun.
Remembering Dr. #HomiJBhabha - 'The Father of India's Nuclear Program', on his 57th death anniversary.🙏
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Had it not been for his historic contributions to India’s nuclear prgm from 40s to 60s, India would not have been nuclear-powered nation as today.
Bhabha was awarded Adams Prize in 42 & PadmaBhushan in 54.
He was nominated for Nobel Prize for Physics in '51 & 53–56.
Nuclear Physics was passion for Bhabha.
- He conducted experiments on particles that released enormous amounts of radiations.
- Jan 1933, Bhabha received his doctorate in Nuclear Phy. & after published first scientific paper, “The Absorption of Cosmic radiation“.