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PROBA-2's view of the 2012 Venus transit

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
10-Oct-2024 08:09 UT

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