February 25, 2025

ISRO releases the second set of the scientific data from the Aditya-L1 mission on 14 February 2025. The data sets comprise valuable scientific information about the Sun’s Photosphere, Chromosphere and its outer atmosphere (Corona) along with the in-situ particles and magnetic field measurements at first Earth-Sun Lagrange Point L1.

The Aditya L1 datasets will be accessible from the website of the Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) portal. To access the Aditya-L1 data via ISSDC website, one has to visit https://www.issdc.gov.in/adityal1.html , navigate to data download section. Data may be accessed directly on PRADAN portal links https://pradan.issdc.gov.in/al1 or https://pradan1.issdc.gov.in/al1 . ISRO encourages the community of researchers and students to utilise these datasets. The user manuals to analyse Aditya-L1 payload data are also available on the above web address after registration.

The maiden data sets from Aditya-L1 were released by ISRO on 6 January 2025, and a national meet was organised. Aditya-L1, at present, is observing the Sun during its third revolution in the Halo orbit around L1.