NASA image captured June 5, 2012.
On June 5-6 2012, SDO is collecting images of one of the rarest predictable solar events: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.
Credit: NASA/SDO, HMI
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en_la_bici 13 months ago | reply
thank you!!!
huntster 13 months ago | reply
Such a good visual example of how small everything else in the solar system is compared to our Sun.
I'm archiving these transit photographs on Wikimedia Commons as they become available here, and this one is at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA%27s_SDO_Satellite_Ca...
Le.Sanchez 13 months ago | reply
love
OnceAndFutureLaura 13 months ago | reply
it's so round.
dodagp 13 months ago | reply
So impressive !!!!
Makes me feel so small ...