Mercurys Transit Of The Sun
by NASA Science Source
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Mercurys Transit Of The Sun
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NASA Science Source
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Mercury's transit of the Sun. Optical image of the planet Mercury (center, black dot) traveling across the front of the Sun. Mercury is the innermost planet of the solar system and is 58 million kilometers (km) from the Sun and 80.8 million km from Earth. It measures 6786 km in diameter compared to the Sun which is approximately 860,000 km in diameter. Photographed on 7th May 2003 by the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) satellite.
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February 19th, 2013
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