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SDO Observed its First Lunar Transit
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NASA image captured October 7, 2010 View a video of this event here: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5099028189">www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5099028189</a> This was a first for SDO and it was visually engaging too. On October 7, 2010, SDO observed its first lunar transit when the new Moon passed directly between the spacecraft (in its geosynchronous orbit) and the Sun.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSDO Observed its First Lunar Transit. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001976.
