Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Where's Mercury?
Image Credit NASA/SOHO.
Mercury is the bright rayed object just near the Solar occultatin disk. The long rays are artefacts of the imaging system. A great movies of Mercury approaching the Sun is available in low resolution (256 Kb) and high resolution (1.6 Mb). Later this year Mercury will pass across the face of the Sun in a rare transit.
Mercury is the bright rayed object just near the Solar occultatin disk. The long rays are artefacts of the imaging system. A great movies of Mercury approaching the Sun is available in low resolution (256 Kb) and high resolution (1.6 Mb). Later this year Mercury will pass across the face of the Sun in a rare transit.