Mercury Transit of the Sun

  • Released Wednesday, May 7, 2003
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The planet Mercury is visible passing between the Sun and the TRACE spacecraft. Data collected on May 7, 2003, from 04:32:04 to 08:08:57.

The dark spot is Mercury, just as it passes over the solar disk.

The dark spot is Mercury, just as it passes over the solar disk.

Mercury continues its motion across the disk.

Mercury continues its motion across the disk.

and keeps moving along.

and keeps moving along.

Still going...

Still going...

Video slate image reads "Mercury transit of the SunThe planet Mercury is visible passing between the Sun and the TRACE spacecraft".

Video slate image reads "Mercury transit of the Sun

The planet Mercury is visible passing between the Sun and the TRACE spacecraft".

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, Sam Freeland (LMSAL), Dawn Myers (GSFC), Carolus J. Schrijver (LMSAL)

This page was originally published on Wednesday, May 7, 2003.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.

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Datasets used in this visualization

  • [TRACE]

    ID: 106
    Dates used: 2003-05-07T04:32:04 to 2003-05-07T08:08:57

    The TRACE satellite views the Sun at ultraviolet wavelengths with high temporal (approximately 1-12 seconds) and spatial (1 arcsecond per pixel) resolution. Launched on April 2, 1998, it orbits the Earth in a Sun-synchronous orbit.

    This dataset can be found at: http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/smex/trace/

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