Aditya-L1, India’s solar mission, is mainly designed to observe which layer of the Sun?
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. Corona.
Aditya-L1 is primarily designed to study the Sun’s corona, the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere. It will observe coronal heating, solar winds, CMEs (coronal mass ejections), and magnetic fields using instruments like VELC (Visible Emission Line Coronagraph).
Although some instruments also observe the photosphere and chromosphere, its main scientific focus is the corona.