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Credit & Copyright: NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center,
Genna Duberstein;
Music:
Encompass by
Mark Petrie
Explanation:
What's that small black dot moving across the Sun?
Mercury.
Possibly the clearest view of
Mercury crossing
in front of the Sun earlier this week was from Earth orbit.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory obtained an uninterrupted vista
recording it not only in optical light but also in bands of
ultraviolet light.
Featured here is a composite movie of the crossing set to music.
Although the event might prove
successful scientifically for better
determining components of Mercury' ultra-thin atmosphere,
the event surely proved
successful culturally by involving
people throughout the world
in observing a rare astronomical phenomenon.
Many spectacular images of this
Mercury transit from around (and above) the globe are being
proudly
displayed.
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& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Mercury - Sun - transit
Publications with words: Mercury - Sun - transit
See also:
- APOD: 2024 February 19 Á Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe
- Circling the Sun
- APOD: 2023 December 11 Á Solar Minimum versus Solar Maximum
- APOD: 2023 November 19 Á Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
- APOD: 2023 October 25 Á Gone in 60 Seconds: A Green Flash Sunset
- Circular Sun Halo
- APOD: 2023 August 1 Á Monster Solar Prominence