Mercury Transit Images (IMAGE)

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Mercury Transit Images

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The background image shows the sun as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, on May 9, 2016, as Mercury passed in front of the sun. The inset shows close-up imagery of Mercury's transit. The inset alternates between views from NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, and SDO.

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Credits: IRIS, LMSAL/NASA, Wei Liu and Bart De Pontieu

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