SDO caught the Mercury transit from space – EarthSky

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Wow! Test out these save of abode-essentially essentially based mostly views of the Mercury transit from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) had a ringside seat on Monday, November 11, 2019, as Mercury crossed the face of the solar within the closing transit of Mercury until the year 2032. The video above shows SDO’s views of the solar – for the length of the hours of the transit – in a vary of wavelengths of sunshine within the low ultraviolet.

Plus … hey, who knew NASA can also be humorous?

Q: What did Mercury notify when it used to be requested to line up between Earth & the Sun?

A: I’ll whisk! ?

We witnessed a rare tackle for the length of this day’s #MercuryTransit, which simplest occurs ~13 instances a century! Delight in the views captured our @NASASun-watching satellite: https://t.co/Wm7TYlNSeX pic.twitter.com/UqhYHTpAQm

— NASA (@NASA) November 12, 2019

Base line: Video of November 11, 2019, transit of Mercury, as viewed by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

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Deborah Byrd

Deborah Byrd created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Nowadays, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of this websites. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a power for accurate within the arena and a extraordinarily vital instrument for the 21st century. “Being an EarthSky editor is worship web hosting a giant world catch together for wintry nature-enthusiasts,” she says.

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