SDO
19th September 2012, 11:50
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If you lived on Jupiter you would be able to see a transit of Venus today. It might look something like the one we saw in June. Here is an example in SDO AIA 171, a tim-lapse still of the black disk of Venus moving across the Sun. Even though the transit can't be seen from Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope may be able to see the small decrease in sunlight reflected off Jupiter toward Earth during the transit. SDO will help by telling the scientists how the Sun's brightness changes during the transit.
It's all part of our search for Earth-like planets around other stars. We see a lot of planets in the Kepler data; how can we determine which ones have water and oxygen? https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6369594138980582994-3106688119172795862?l=sdoisgo.blogspot.com
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If you lived on Jupiter you would be able to see a transit of Venus today. It might look something like the one we saw in June. Here is an example in SDO AIA 171, a tim-lapse still of the black disk of Venus moving across the Sun. Even though the transit can't be seen from Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope may be able to see the small decrease in sunlight reflected off Jupiter toward Earth during the transit. SDO will help by telling the scientists how the Sun's brightness changes during the transit.
It's all part of our search for Earth-like planets around other stars. We see a lot of planets in the Kepler data; how can we determine which ones have water and oxygen? https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6369594138980582994-3106688119172795862?l=sdoisgo.blogspot.com
More... (http://sdoisgo.blogspot.com/2012/09/another-transit-of-venus-but-only-for.html)