Why Aditya-L1 scientists shunned perfumes

Smelling nice is not an option when you are aiming for the Sun. For the scientists and engineers working on the main payload of Aditya L-1, at least, it was a strict no-no. The Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) team that built Aditya’s main payload — Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) — to understand the efforts...