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Space Station, Venus, Sun
July 20, 2004Tomas Maruska
(SAAD)
About This Image
On June 8, Venus was not the only celestial object to pass in front of the Sun. A few well-situated photographers caught the International Space Station also crossing the Sun simultaneously. Pictured above is a unique time-lapse image of the unprecedented double transit, a rare event that was visible for less than a second from a narrow band on Earth. The above image is a combination of 12 frames taken 0.033 seconds apart and each themselves lasting only 1/10,000 th of a second. The image was taken from the small village of Stupava in Slovakia. The next time Venus will appear to cross the Sun from Earth will be in 2012. News: Today is the 35th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
On This Day in Space History
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on another world.
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