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Mercury Solar Transit
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Boyertown Area High School astronomy teacher Peter Detterline prepares high powered binoculars with a solar filter so that his students may view the planet Mercury as it transits across the face of the sun , Monday, May 9, 2016, Boyertown Area High School, Boyertown, Pennsylvania. Mercury passes between Earth and the sun only about 13 times a century, with the previous transit taking place in 2006. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineMercury Solar Transit. NASA/HQ, 2016-05-09. Public domain. ID: NHQ201605090005.
