India’s newly launched Aditya-L1 sun-studying mission has already captured its first glimpse of a solar flare in high-energy X-rays. On Tuesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that Aditya-L1’s High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS) instrument had spotted the impulsive phase of a solar flare. The flare occurred on Oct. 29, less than two months after Aditya-L1 lifted off. Aditya-L1 resides at the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point-1 (L1), which is about 1 million miles from Earth in the direction of the sun. The probe carries seven scientific instruments, and one of them is the HEL1OS, which focuses on studying the X-ray emissions from solar flares. Scientists hope to understand how the high-energy emissions are linked to the particles released during these events. HEL1OS is still in the testing phase, with scientists fine-tuning and calibrating the instrument.