The Mercury transit was seen by observers on the ground and by satellites in space. The best views of the transit came from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft, whose multiple imagers showed the transit in different parts of the spectrum: Another SDO view: http://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/movies/Mercury_AIA96s_171/All/Mercury_AIA96s_171_All.mp4 Here […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Mercury and Venus
On Monday the planet Mercury will transit across the face of the Sun as seen from earth between about 7:12 am and 2:42 pm EDT : Mercury Enters Spotlight on May 9 – NASA. This video shows the path that it will take: Don’t […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the years there have been those who have argued that Venus, not Mars, is the best place for humans to explore and even settle. They are not proposing that people go down into the poisonous atmosphere and onto the hellishly hot […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Living atop the clouds of Venus might be feasible and offer some advantages over the surface of Mars: The Surprisingly Strong Case for Colonizing Venus: Science fiction writers have come up with a plausible scenario for a floating city above the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A post by ESA about a recent observation from the Venus Express orbiter: Venus glory A rainbow-like feature known as a ‘glory’ has been seen by ESA’s Venus Express orbiter in the atmosphere of our nearest neighbour – the first […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…