Posts tagged "transit"
The Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. It provides images with resolution 8 times better than high-definition television. On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event, the transit of Venus across the face of the sun, in order to produce this stunning video in ultraviolet and visible light.
Wow. That’s a whole planet there, folks, nearly the same size as Earth, roughly 40 million kilometers from Earth, back lit by a star 110 million km farther away.
Transit of Venus, 2012.
