SOHO LASCO View of Approaching Venus Transit
With coronagraphs, the Sun is being blocked by an occulting disk, seen here in blue, so that SOHO can observe the much fainter features in the Sun's corona. The actual size of the Sun is represented by the white disk.
The transit of Venus begins tomorrow, June 5, at about 6pm Eastern Daylight Time, or about 10pm Universal Time. It will last approximately 6 hours.
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See http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/2012-venus-transit.html
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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- Scott Wiessinger (KBRwyle)
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- Scott Wiessinger (KBRwyle)
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