Time lapse movie of the transit of Venus, as seen from the land of the midnight sun in Svalbard. Interference from cloud gives an eerie feel to the scene.
Credits: ESA – Andy Oates
Tag: Venus Transit
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Venus Express and transit of Venus
This movie was compiled from images taken by the Venus Monitoring Camera on Venus Express as it approached the planet on its elliptical orbit on 1 June 2012. Initially, the spacecraft is looking at the south side of the planet from a distance of 63 000 km and clouds can be seen moving below. As the spacecraft draws closer, Venus starts filling the field of view and the equatorial regions can be seen. The sequence finishes with observations of cloud features at high latitudes.
Copyright: ESA/MPS/DLR/IDA
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Venus Transit seen from Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen
Cloudy weather did impact on the Venus transit observations at Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen. Still most of the Venus transit could be captured.
Credit: ESA – M. Breitfellner, M. Perez -
Venus Transit seen from Canberra, Australia (part 2)
Almost the whole Venus transit could be captured despite of some clouds did get into the way of those observing the Venus Transit in Canberra, Australia.
Credit: ESA – Manuel Castillo-Fraile and Miguel Sanchez-Portal -
Venus Transit seen from Canberra, Australia (part 1)
Almost the whole Venus transit could be captured despite of some clouds did get into the way of those observing the Venus Transit in Canberra, Australia.
Credit: ESA – Manuel Castillo-Fraile and Miguel Sanchez-Portal -
Venus solar transit 2012 – Proba-2’s journey across the Sun
This movie shows the transit of Venus on 5-6 June 2012 as seen from SWAP, a Belgian solar imager onboard ESA’s PROBA2 microsatellite. SWAP, watching the Sun in EUV light, observes Venus as a small, black circle, obscuring the EUV light emitted from the solar outer atmosphere – the corona – from 19:45UT onwards. At 22:16UT – Venus started its transit of the solar disk
The bright dots all over the image (‘snow storm’) are energetic particles hitting the SWAP detector when PROBA2 crosses the South Atlantic Anomaly, a region where the protection of the Earth magnetic field against space radiation is known to be weaker.
Note also the small flaring activity in the bright active region in the northern solar hemisphere as Venus passes over. Towards the end, you can see a big dim inverted-U-shape moving away from the Sun towards the bottom-right corner. This is a coronal mass ejection taking off.
Credit: ESA/ROB