Sun Planets and Moons ID: 3384

Mercury Transit from TRACE (White Light)

Visualizations by Dawn C. Myers Released on November 8, 2006

This is a view of the planet Mercury (a black dot) as seen by TRACE through its white light optical telescope. Because the TRACE field-of-view is much smaller than the solar disk, the spacecraft is repointed three times during the transit (creating the position jumps of the movie).

This movie was generated from telemetry which has undergone a minimum of processing (to deliver quickly for the media) so data dropouts and other quick-processing artifacts may be visible. Special thanks to Dawn Myers of the TRACE project for this effort.

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Visualization Credits

Dawn C. Myers (ADNET): Lead Animator
Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Neal Hurlburt (LMSAL): Scientist

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Mission:
TRACE

Data Used:

TRACE/Optical Telescope/White Light

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Mercury Transit 2006

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Mercury
SVS >> Solar Eclipse
SVS >> Transit
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Solar Imagery
SVS >> TRACE
NASA Science >> Sun
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0