On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event: the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.
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The transit of Venus as seen with SWAP, a Belgian solar imager onboard ESA\’s PROBA-2 microsatellite. SWAP watches the Sun in EUV light.
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The 94 angstroms channel allows the study of solar flares, measuring temperatures around 6 million Kelvin. The 171 angstroms channel is very good at showing coronal loops. The 193 and 335 angstroms channels highlight the outer atmosphere of the Sun, the corona. The 304 angstroms channel shows the areas where the plasma has a high density.
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After a successful mission to the International Space Station, Dragon splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.
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Images of the corona taken in the extreme ultraviolet. The structures appear enhanced due to additional processing.
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