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Mercury orbits in a plane that is tilted from Earth’s orbit, moving above or below our line of sight to the sun.


The 2016 Mercury transit occurred on May 9th, between about 7:12 a.m. and 2:42 p.m. EDT.

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The images in this video are from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO.

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Transits provide a great opportunity to study the way planets and stars move in space– information that has been used throughout the ages to better understand the solar system and which still helps scientists today calibrate their instruments.", "items": [], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 334096, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12235/#media_group_334096", "widget": "Single image", "title": "", "caption": "", "description": "Image of 2016 Mercury Transit, as seen by NASA's SDO in a blend of 304 and 171 Angstroms.

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