Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Transit Of Venus Pictures

  • I knew the transit of Venus would occur during my rotation, so I brought a solar filter with me. Its not all about pretty pictures. Several science experiments are planned, including studies that should help in the search for habitable planets beyond Earth.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Venus fully enters the suns disk in this view of the June 5, 2012 Venus transit from a telescope atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, during a NASA webcast. Venus appears at lower left, a position created by the telescope itself.
  • (Space News)
  • I knew the transit of Venus would occur during my rotation, so I brought a solar filter with me. Its not all about pretty pictures. Several science experiments were planned, including studies that could help in the search for habitable planets beyond Earth.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • NASA astronaut Don Pettit will be posting pictures from his viewing spot aboard the International Space Station, 240 miles above the planet. Ive been planning this for a while, Pettit said in a NASA interview.
  • (news.discovery.com)
  • Visit National Geographics gallery of Venus transit photos a href=http://news.nationalgeographic.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Click here for a full list of Venus transit webcasts. Editors Note: SPACE.com will be posting updates and pictures of the transit as it progresses. If you snap photos of the 2012 transit of Venus across the sun and would like to share them with SPACE.
  • (Space News)
  • NASA scientists have been broadcasting pictures of the transit of Venus from Alice Springs after cloudy skies and a mystery computer connection problem delayed the transmission.
  • (au.news.yahoo.com)
  • http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/projects/transit-of-venus/live-webcast.
  • (Business Wire)
  • It will not happen again until 2117. The crew of the International Space Station have been capturing images of Planet Venus transit across the Sun. NASA have tweeted links to some of these pictures taken by space station flight engineer Don Pettit.
  • (ITV)
  • British early risers hoping to witness the transit will need special glasses or a telescope with light filters. Venus will appear as a small beauty spot passing in front of the much larger sun.
  • (Daily Mirror)

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