Sun  Planets and Moons  ID: 2966

Venus Transit from GOES/SXI

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on July 21, 2004
The planet Venus is seen passing between the Earth and the Sun in this sequence of images taken by GOES/SXI. The last Venus Transit was in 1882, the next will be in 2012.
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This movie shows Venus (the dark spot, below the center of the solar disk) moving across the solar disk.
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Opening view of the Sun in X-rays (6-20 angstroms) as seen from GOES-SXI
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Venus is visible against the solar disk (the dark spot at about the 7:30 position).
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Venus is still visible against the solar disk.
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Venus has moved off the solar disk (around the 4:30 position) but is still silhouetted against the x-ray emission from the solar corona.

For More Information

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2004/0608venus.html

Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Daniel Wilkinson (NOAA/SEC): Scientist
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NOAA, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Data Used:
GOES-12/SXI
NOAA - 2004-06-08T03:02:04 - 2004-06-08T14:59:46
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This item is part of this series:
Venus Transit

Keywords:
DLESE >> Space science
SVS >> Transit
SVS >> Venus
SVS >> GOES
SVS >> For Educators
SVS >> Solar System >> Planetary Orbits
SVS >> Sun-Venus Interactions
SVS >> Solar System >> Planets >> Venus
NASA Science >> Sun
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons