transit of mercury images

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From: Paul Doherty (pauld@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 12:08:03 PDT 

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Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 12:08:03 -0700
From: Paul Doherty <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: transit of mercury images

Last night the planet Mercury passed between the sun and the earth.

Here are some sites that chronicle the occassion.

Paul D

Good images with commentary in English and swedish
http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/Mercurytransit7May2003/

be sure to scroll to the bottom of this page
http://www.eso.org/outreach/eduoff/vt-2004/mt-2003/mt-display.html

Images and a movie from the SOHO spacecraft, it's slow to load so many
people are looking at their images.

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

And here are the images and a movie from the Trace Spacecraft
http://chippewa.nascom.nasa.gov/TRACE/mercury_2003/

Down to earth look at: Simple black and white images
http://www.hill-side.freeserve.co.uk/transit/index.html

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