Tagged: Goddard Space Flight Center

Transit Of Venus.

June 5th, 2012 NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory [SDO] captured the transit of Venus crossing the face of the sun, the event lasted approximately 6 hours. The transit of Venus occurs in pairs of 8 years and separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. The last time it occurred was in 2004 and it will not happen again until 2117 making it the rarest predictable solar events.
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NASA – Evolution Of The Moon.

NASA gives us a short tour and visualizes the evolution of Earth’s moon. The moon has remained unchanged for thousands of years but NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a closer look and provides us with a little of the moon’s history.
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Tour of the Moon