Chandrayaan-2 detects solar proton events: ISRO
India’s second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The instrument on January 18 also recorded coronal mass ejections, a powerful stream of ionised material and magnetic fields. A Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS), a payload on-board Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter, has detected solar proton events which significantly increase the radiation exposure to humans in space, the Indian Space Research Organisation has said. The instrument on January 18 also recorded coronal mass ejections (CMEs), a powerful stream of ionised material and magnetic fields, which reach the Earth a few days later, leading to geomagnetic storms and lighting up the polar sky with auroras, the ISRO said on Wednesday. "Such multi-point observations help us understand the propagation and its impact on different planetary systems," it said. When the sun is active, spectacular eruptions called solar flares occur that sometimes also spew out ener...