Mercury Transit 2016 from SDO/AIA at 304 Ångstroms

  • Released Wednesday, June 1, 2016
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Composited full-disk imagery sampled at 12 second intervals.

Mercury transit, from May 9, 2016, as seen by the AIA telescope with 304 Ångstrom filter on Solar Dynamics Observatory.

This is a composited product, producing a full disk 4Kx4K view by combining the image subsets taken at 12 second cadence with full-disk images taken about every 90 seconds. It is generated for esthetics use and it not suitable for scientific analysis.

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This page was originally published on Wednesday, June 1, 2016.
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