Here is a photograph of the ISS (International Space Station) and the Space Shuttle Atlantis transiting the Sun in sometime in the past week:
Monday, February 18, 2008
Spaceships Transit the Sun
In astronomy, a "transit" is when an object passes in front of a much larger object. It's sort of like an eclipse, only the object in front is WAY too small to block the object behind.
Here is a photograph of the ISS (International Space Station) and the Space Shuttle Atlantis transiting the Sun in sometime in the past week:
Here is a photograph of the ISS (International Space Station) and the Space Shuttle Atlantis transiting the Sun in sometime in the past week:
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I have seen another picture like this, except it was not the same space shuttle(I don't think) and I saw it in National Geographic.
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