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Mercury shows its dark side

2 May 2003

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Credits: Composite by Medialab, inset image of Mercury (NASA)

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Predicted path of Mercury across the solar disk during the 2003 transit, as seen from SOHO's vantage point.

Credits: SOHO/LASCO and SOHO/EIT (ESA & NASA), POLAR/VIS (NASA) & Jan Curtis