Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Until last week, never seen by human eyes:

Last week, the Mars Science Lab's rover, Curiosity, photographed the planet Mercury transiting the face of the Sun.



This is the first transit of the sun by a planet observed from any planet other than Earth, and also the first imaging of Mercury from Mars.

Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)