SDO Captures Venus Transit Approach
This image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows Venus as it nears the disk of the sun on June 5, 2012. Venus’s 2012 transit will be the last such event until 2117.
Credit: NASA/SDO, AIA Larger image
This image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows Venus as it nears the disk of the sun on June 5, 2012. Venus’s 2012 transit will be the last such event until 2117.
Credit: NASA/SDO, AIA Larger image