File:2016 Mercury Transit in 4K.webm
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English: Around 13 times per century, Mercury passes between Earth and the sun in a rare astronomical event known as a planetary transit. 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. The images in this video are from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. 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. |
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| Source | YouTube: 2016 Mercury Transit in 4K – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today |
| Author | NASA / Goddard / Genna Duberstein |
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YouTube: 2016 Mercury Transit in 4K – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today, was reviewed on 19 February 2017 by reviewer INeverCry, who confirmed that it was available there under the stated license on that date.
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| current | 00:31, 20 February 2017 | 1 min 25 s, 3,840 × 2,026 (172.66 MB) | Revent (talk | contribs) | Reverted to version as of 02:54, 18 February 2017 (UTC) | |
| 00:29, 20 February 2017 | 1 min 25 s, 3,840 × 2,026 (172.66 MB) | Revent (talk | contribs) | c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js: higher quality - avoid unneeded transcoding | ||
| 02:54, 18 February 2017 | 1 min 25 s, 3,840 × 2,026 (172.66 MB) | Revent (talk | contribs) | Imported media from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhO6Ufw9h_s |
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