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Venus Transit Viewing at NASA Goddard
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A "transit of Venus" occurs when the planet Venus passes directly between the sun and the Earth. During the event, Venus will be seen from Earth as a small black sphere moving across the face of the sun. Such an event won’t occur again until the year 2117.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineVenus Transit Viewing at NASA Goddard. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001726.