Mercury transit recap
and a bonus from Venus
This was the original recap.
"Mercury marched in front of the Sun from 19:12 UT on November 8 to 00:09 UT on November 9. Mercury was seen as a round-shaped shadow on the Sun. The Mercury Transit was observed in Asian countries including Japan in the morning of November 9 local time. The Hinode spacecraft, which is put on a Sun-synchronous orbit around the Earth, observed the event without atmospheric distortion."
I was collecting some images of Saturn from a Norwegian site and found lots of coverage of the Venus transit in 2004. Highlights:
"Mercury marched in front of the Sun from 19:12 UT on November 8 to 00:09 UT on November 9. Mercury was seen as a round-shaped shadow on the Sun. The Mercury Transit was observed in Asian countries including Japan in the morning of November 9 local time. The Hinode spacecraft, which is put on a Sun-synchronous orbit around the Earth, observed the event without atmospheric distortion."
I was collecting some images of Saturn from a Norwegian site and found lots of coverage of the Venus transit in 2004. Highlights:
Mercury transit recap
and a bonus from Venus
mr damon, 01:04
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