Mercury Transit 2016 from SDO/AIA at 171 Ångstroms
Composited full-disk imagery sampled at 12 second intervals.
Mercury transit, from May 9, 2016, as seen by the AIA telescope with 171 Ångstrom filter on Solar Dynamics Observatory.
This is a composited product, producing a full disk 4Kx4K view by combining the image subsets taken at 12 second cadence with full-disk images taken about every 90 seconds. It is generated for esthetics use and it not suitable for scientific analysis.
Credits
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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Visualizer
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Technical support
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Producer
- Genna Duberstein (USRA)
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Scientists
- William D. Pesnell (NASA/GSFC)
- Barbara Thompson (NASA/GSFC)
Missions
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AIA 171 (171 Filter) [SDO: AIA]
ID: 680This dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
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Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, June 1, 2016.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:48 PM EDT.