Transit of Venus 2012
On June 5, 2012, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory 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 previous transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117. This time-lapse image shows Venus as it passes across the disk of the Sun, this process took about six hours.
Credit: NASA/SDO, AIA
Image Number: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001727
Date: June 5, 2012
Transit of Venus 2012
On June 5, 2012, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory 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 previous transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117. This time-lapse image shows Venus as it passes across the disk of the Sun, this process took about six hours.
Credit: NASA/SDO, AIA
Image Number: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001727
Date: June 5, 2012