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manasecret · 06-08-2004, 01:47 PM

Sorry, I usually assume everyone is aware enough to know when such rare events happen.

But you can still see a lot of better pictures (and some movies) here.

http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/transits/venus_2004/

EDIT:

Wow, those movies from that website are incredible. Here's some direct links:

(I recommend right-clicking and save-as, they take a little while)

http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/trans.../1600_0743.mov

http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/trans...L_eastlimb.mov

http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/trans...0_eastlimb.mov

You can get all those from the website above.

These are all photos taken from the TRACE telescope that orbits the Earth. It's been used for many many other scientific missions (and also recorded the Mercury transit May of last year).

It has all the different colored pictures because it takes photo measurements of the sun in different wavelengths (some invisible to the human eye), and then adds colors to them to make them distinct from each other I suppose.

06-08-2004, 01:47 PM	#5
manasecret aka George Washington manasecret is offline Location: New Orleans, LA/Houston, TX Now Playing: CSS Posts: 2,670	Re: Venus Explodes! Sorry, I usually assume everyone is aware enough to know when such rare events happen. But you can still see a lot of better pictures (and some movies) here. http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/transits/venus_2004/ EDIT: Wow, those movies from that website are incredible. Here's some direct links: (I recommend right-clicking and save-as, they take a little while) http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/trans.../1600_0743.mov http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/trans...L_eastlimb.mov http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/trans...0_eastlimb.mov You can get all those from the website above. These are all photos taken from the TRACE telescope that orbits the Earth. It's been used for many many other scientific missions (and also recorded the Mercury transit May of last year). It has all the different colored pictures because it takes photo measurements of the sun in different wavelengths (some invisible to the human eye), and then adds colors to them to make them distinct from each other I suppose. __________________ d^_^b Last edited by manasecret : 06-08-2004 at 02:03 PM.