Science and Exploration

SDO Captures Venus Transit Approach

By Keith Cowing
May 24, 2013
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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

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