[Chaos-l] Fwd: Video and Photos Capture Transit of Venus From Space

[Terry Crook]

Excellent collection of videos at various wavelengths!  Thx, Walter.

Taurus Terry in Chapel Hill
35° 55' 47"N, 79° 01' 00"W


On 6/8/2012 6:20 PM, walter fowler wrote:
> My astronomically minded (and Web-savvy) nephew sent me this 
> collection of transit pix.  One of the photos may be showing an 
> airplane releasing the "weather balloon/UFOs" that could be proving 
> the point (but that's speculative).  Walter
>
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> From: *odysseus* <george.kachergis at gmail.com 
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> Date: Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:27 PM
> Subject: Video and Photos Capture Transit of Venus From Space
> To: walter fowler <walterfowler at gmail.com <mailto:walterfowler at gmail.com>>
>
>
>       Sent to you by odysseus via Google Reader:
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>     Video and Photos Capture Transit of Venus From Space
>     <http://feeds.wired.com/%7Er/wiredscience/%7E3/Hr972j9vMaE/>
>
> via Wired: Wired Science <http://www.wired.com/wiredscience> by Adam 
> Mann on 6/6/12
>
> While millions of earthbound viewers tuned in to see the Transit of 
> Venus, some celestial observation points topped them all. The video 
> above captures the historic event from more than 22,000 miles above 
> our planet, taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory 
> <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/overview/index.html> from 
> geosynchronous orbit.
>
> The high-above and high-definition view shows our sister planet Venus 
> <http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/ways-to-watch-transit-venus/> 
> as it plunges just past the solar limb and crosses the sun's face. The 
> video is composed of a series of images stitched together to produce a 
> sped-up version of the transit (which, in reality, took nearly seven 
> hours). SDO took images in several different wavelengths, including 
> extreme ultraviolet that shows the sun blazing with fierce magnetic 
> field lines.
>
> <http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/06/Venus-TransitSDO.jpg>
>
> Venus looks like it's going to get burned above a hellish landscape as 
> it sails across the sun's face --- it's more than 67 million miles 
> away so there's no actual chance of that. This is the first time that 
> a satellite has taken such high-quality images of a transit of Venus. 
> The SDO data may help scientists learn details of the Venusian 
> atmosphere 
> <http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/04jun_arcofvenus/>.
>
> Slightly closer to home, astronaut Don Pettit snapped some incredible 
> photographs (such as the one below) of the transit from the 
> International Space Station, which sits in low-Earth orbit about 240 
> miles above the planet's surface. Knowing that his rotation aboard the 
> ISS would overlap with the historic event, Pettit packed special 
> lenses for his camera. His photos 
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_jsc_photo/sets/72157629649730820/with/7158352677/> 
> represent the first images of a Venus transit taken from the space 
> station.
>
> <http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/06/venustransitpettit.jpg>
>
> One more incredible image comes from the Johnson Space Center in 
> Texas, where NASA photographer Mark Sowa captured the sun with beauty 
> mark Venus setting behind the Mercury-Redstone rocket 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_Launch_Vehicle>, the 
> U.S.'s first manned launch vehicle (below). More amazing photos of the 
> transit are available in this user-submitted gallery 
> <http://spaceweather.com/gallery/> from Spaceweather.com.
>
> <http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/06/venustransitmercury.jpg>
>
> /Update/: One of our readers, Austin Kurtz, has sent a great photo of 
> the transit <http://wotog.com/personal/transit-of-venus-2012/> taken 
> from Chicago. The flight path of O'Hare International Airport was 
> between Kurtz and the sun, leading to an incredible airplane 
> silhouette alongside Venus crossing the sun.
>
> <http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/06/AKurtz_VenusTransit_20120605_4628_UnwatermarkedForWired.jpg>
>
> /Video: NASA/SDO 
> <http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=145648241>/
>
> /Images: 1) NASA/SDO 
> <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/multimedia/gallery/venus-transit-2012-first.html>. 
> 2) NASA/Don Pettit 
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_jsc_photo/7159736253/in/photostream>. 
> 3) NASA/Mark Sowa 
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_jsc_photo/7344965262/in/photostream>. 
> 4) Austin Kurtz <http://wotog.com/>/
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