What is the 2012 Venus transit all about?
Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its five-year mission, it will examine the sun's atmosphere, magnetic field and also provide a better understanding of the role the sun plays in Earth's atmospheric chemistry and climate. SDO provides images with resolution 8 times better than high-definition television and returns more than a terabyte of data each day. On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event--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. The videos and images displayed here are constructed from several wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light and a portion of the visible spectrum. The red colored sun is the 304 angstrom ultraviolet, the golden colored sun is 171 angstrom, the magenta sun is 1700 angstrom, and the orange sun is filtered visible light. 304 and 171 show the atmosphere of the sun, which does not appear in the visible part of the spectrum.
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SomET
1 year agoSom ET - 81 - Sun - Venus Transit 2012
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Transiting Astrology
8 months agoTransiting Venus in square with natal Saturn
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Concept Shorties
1 year agoTaxi Driver on Venus
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allthingsaboutvienna
3 years agoBus 40 A of Vienna public transportation
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SOSQHT
10 months agoA Trip to Venus
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Transiting Astrology
8 months agoTransiting Venus in Taurus
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JessieJohn
10 months agoSUN: 1,651.29 Miles Above. Venus/ Mercury CAN NOT Transit (Cross Between) Earth and Sun. IMPOSSIBLE
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Transiting Astrology
4 months agoTransiting Earth in opposition with natal Venus
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Warrior1010
9 months ago~Venus 101
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Transiting Astrology
8 months agoTransiting Venus quincunx natal Venus
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