The Si2 had landed in Varanasi on Wednesday evening and the next leg of the flight would be piloted by Bertrand Piccard.
Solar Impulse 2 does not carry any fuel and had landed in Ahmedabad on March 10 around midnight. It was stationed there for six days and had maintained a minimum altitude of around 5,200 metres on its flight to Varanasi.
The Si2, built to fly around the world without using a drop of fuel, has also been designed to showcase the effectiveness of clean technologies and the importance of sustainability.
The aircraft had taken off from Muscat on March 9, flew over Pakistan airspace before entering the Indian airspace over the Arabian Sea towards Gujarat. The Aditya Birla Group had hosted the flight in Ahmedabad.
It is fitted with a total of 17,248 solar cells and four lithium batteries, the weight of Si2 is 633 kg. The batteries supply the electric motors with enough renewable energy for a 24x7 flight, up to an altitude of 8,500 metres. This altitude is less than the height of Mount Everest which stands at 8,848 metres.
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