[SAPOD]Today’s “Space Image”. We introduce characteristic images introduced by sorae in the past, attractive images released by space agencies of various countries, and images submitted by space astronomy fans and experts. (There is a link to the original article at the end of the article)
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- Image Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team
- sorae – Mercury’s shadow-like appearance passing in front of the sun captured by a European solar probe
[Reposted]This is the “Mercury captured by a solar probe“is.
The video below was created using data acquired by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) solar probe Solar Orbiter on January 3, 2023.
*This is a short video in which the same movement is repeated three times.
Can you see the black shadow moving from the center to the right against the background of the solar atmosphere? The true identity of this shadow is Mercury, which orbits at an average distance of about 58 million km from the sun.
When Mercury or Venus, which are located inside the Earth’s orbit, pass between the Sun and the Earth, the Earth may observe Mercury or Venus passing through the Sun. On this day, Mercury passed between the “artificial planet” Solar Orbiter and the sun, so it was possible to observe Mercury’s passage through the sun from Solar Orbiter.
A solar transit is a term that refers to when a planet such as Mercury or Venus crosses in front of the sun, but the general phenomenon in which one celestial body crosses in front of another is called a transit, and is a powerful tool for finding planets outside the solar system. It is used as one of the methods.
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