Stunning Timelapse: Spacecraft Capture the Transit of Venus

Here’s the entire 7-hour transit of Venus across the face of the Sun – shown in several views — in just 39 seconds, as seen by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 5, 2012. This view is in the 171 Angstrom wavelenth, so note also the the bright active region in the northern solar hemisphere as Venus passes over, with beautiful coronal loops visible. The transit produced a silhouette of Venus n the Sun that no one alive today will likely see again. With its specialized instruments SDO’s high-definition view from space provides a solar spectacular!Scott Wiessinger from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio wrote this morning to tell us, “If you have the space and the bandwidth, I really recommend downloading this large file on the SVS to view. YouTube compression is hard on solar footage, so it looks even better when you watch it at true full quality.”Below is another great timelapse view from ESA’s PROBA-2 microsatellite: (...)Read the rest of Stunning Timelapse: Spacecraft Capture the Transit of Venus (163 words)© nancy for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: Proba-2, Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), sun, Transit of Venus, Venus Feed enhanced by Better Feed ...