PROBA-2's view of the 2012 Venus transit
Date: 05 June 2012
Satellite: PROBA-2
Depicts: Venus solar transit
Copyright: ESA
This image of the solar transit of Venus in the night of 5-6 June 2012 was obtained with SWAP, the extreme-ultraviolet telescope onboard ESA's PROBA-2 microsatellite.
As Venus crossed the solar disk, the planet appeared as a small, black circle, obscuring the extreme-ultraviolet light emitted from the Sun.
The transit took more than six and a half hours and this image was taken about one hour after the start of Venus's path across the solar disk.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
