2004 Venus transit UV

Autor:

NASA/LMSAL

Credit:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_184.html (video link)

Krótki link:

https://plwiki.pl/b/57ce9

źródło:

Wikimedia Commons

Wymiary:

800 x 512 Pixel (3595836 Bytes)

Opis:

NASA joined the world on June 8, 2004, in viewing a rare celestial event, one not seen by any person now alive. The "Venus transit" -- the apparent crossing of our planetary neighbor in front of the Sun -- was captured from the unique perspective of NASA's Sun-observing TRACE spacecraft. This video shows the transit in ultraviolet wavelengths. The last "Venus transit" occurred more than a century ago, in 1882, and was used to compute the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Scientists with NASA's Kepler mission hope to discover Earth-like planets outside our solar system by searching for transits of other stars by planets that might be orbiting them.

Licencja:

Public domain