Mercury Transit 2016 from SDO/AIA at 304 Ångstroms
Visualizations by
Tom Bridgman
Released on June 1, 2016
Mercury transit, from May 9, 2016, as seen by the AIA telescope with 304 Ångstrom filter on Solar Dynamics Observatory.
This is a composited product, producing a full disk 4Kx4K view by combining the image subsets taken at 12 second cadence with full-disk images taken about every 90 seconds. It is generated for esthetics use and it not suitable for scientific analysis.