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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